[195096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Luthman)
Wed Jun 21 09:26:21 2017
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From: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:25:59 -0400
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Does anyone else feel this thread has generated more spam in their inbox
than the vendors?
Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
> 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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