[41279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Wed Sep 5 10:01:54 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Point granted. But in practice, just about every list of this type somehow
manages to be corrupted by more than a few stray addresses...
-C
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>
> > We should probably take this off-list but I want to make one important
> > point.
> >
> > By definition, you can't buy an opt-in list. If you buy it, and use it,
> > you're spamming.
>
> Bull. If I as an individual give permission for an organization I have
> some sort of relationship with to have mail sent to me by third parties,
> that's my perogative. What you are in fact saying is that I'm not allowed
> to give that permission.
>
> The problem is that the sleaze factor that permeates the space.
>
>
