[194964] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Wed Jun 14 01:28:51 2017
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 05:28:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m2wp8f9qtx.wl-randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. And the req=
uirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails is pointless, because how =
do you prove that someone did that?
-mel via cell
On Jun 13, 2017, at 8:44 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed by Glenn Stern
>> (gstern@calient.net), an employee of Calient following NANOG 70.
>> ...
>> Hopefully those of you who have traditional community attitudes will
>> show your reaction via your pocketbooks.
>=20
> traditional community attitudes left the building long ago. nanog has
> become a trade show, for which this is normal behavior. i expect mail
> "stop by our booth at nanog 42," and so forth.
>=20
> randy
