[41243] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve uurtamo)
Tue Sep 4 16:51:06 2001
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:44:16 -0700
From: steve uurtamo <uurtamo@arttoday.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <200109042031.QAA26933@freedman.net>; from freedman@freedman.net on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:31:09PM -0400
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> If anyone has any heuristics for ensuring that lists don't have automated
> new-domain or SWIP gleanings, I'd appreciate them; for now we'll just
> search for hostmaster@, ipspace@, and other role-looking accounts.
a heuristic that i would use would be:
please don't purchase "contact" lists from people.
please don't hire marketing folks who think that this is a good idea.
sales the old-fashioned way still works, you know. learn about people in
your market, get to know what they want, contact them individually when
you think you can make a sale.
since when did blind email campaigns to lists of people whose _origin you
can't even determine_ become a reasonable-sounding sales technique?
this isn't postcard-in-the-mailbox stuff, guys. and the people buying it
aren't likely to impulse-buy, anyhow. jeez.
s.
