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Re: Network/Routing Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Snyder)
Thu May 25 19:40:14 2000

From: Larry Snyder <larrys@lexis-nexis.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:36:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: mark@noc.mainstreet.net
Cc: keith@mccallion.com, doug@safeport.com, nanog@merit.edu
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I don't know who or how many buy their dialup pop's from Starnetinc.
I've gotten my share of stuff originating at one of their dialups.
Every time I've contacted abuse@popsite.net (their dialups' reverse
dns), they've been pretty responsive.
-ls-

Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net> wrote:
> 
> >> I think you are confused. Starnet is a wholesale dialup provider, they are
> >> not spammers
> 
> If they're not spammers then they are (or were) spammer magnets.
> 
> In the past couple of years the majority of spam complaints we've
> received are misdirected at us and better directed at starnetinc.com.
> We get the complaints because our name is on starnet.com and people
> draw hasty conclusions instead of digging deeper and uncovering
> starnetinc.com and starnetusa.com.
> 
> -mark
> 
> 
> 
> 



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