[41266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Sep 4 21:10:17 2001
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:09:43 -0400
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>
Message-Id: <200109050109.VAA04202@freedman.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <10184.195637.1890@avi.netaxs.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <10184.195637.1890@avi.netaxs.com> you wrote:
: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
: Avi,
: In my last message I said good things about you. Please don't make me take
: them back.
: You can't purchase an opt-in list. Period.
Let's just take it off-list. Let's just say that I reject religious
oversimplifications, whether it's about spam 'there are no acceptable
opt-in lists' (I've subscribed to a few, though generally with separate
mailing address) - or routing 'multihoming is bad and hurts you' (rarely
aregues except by those with a financial incentive to do so). Don't
get me started on OSs, though... There may be FAR more than a kernel
of truth, but blanket statements go against my grain...
In any case, re: Akamai, we managed to convince marketing that the benefit
of even what I'd call 'legit' list-based marketing aren't worth it,
so the rest is just semantics and probably, as you said, not really
on-topic for NANOG.
Thanks,
Avi
