[69586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SPAM Directly from AT&T Data Networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Apr 14 17:38:24 2004
In-Reply-To: <878ygy6z9b.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:37:06 -0400
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 5:11 PM -0400 4/14/04, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
>All of AT&T's competitors' rate structures have been significantly
>reduced over the past couple of years too; I wonder how many people
>are deciding that they'll invoke the Boulder Pledge (*) and take their
>business elsewhere.
If a company shows a pattern of spam, boycotting makes perfect sense. You
have to be a little careful acting on a single spam, since it can originate with
a rogue employee. I've received such single incidents from almost every
router vendor on the planet (and simply don't buy from the ones that fail to
correct the problem).
/John
