[195088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Wed Jun 21 01:45:41 2017
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From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:45:00 -0700
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On 6/13/17 10:28 PM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. And the requirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails is pointless, because how do you prove that someone did that?
Seed the list with one or two spamtrap addresses never seen in the wild.
Wait.
In this case, the spammer was stupid enough hot only to abuse a list of
technical people who run networks, but to brag about it within the body
of the spam.
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