[89414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wiltel has gone pink.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Mar 14 06:56:50 2006
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:56:30 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20060313205411.GC82432@svcolo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello,
You are aware Wiltel was acquired by Level(3) some time ago? Going to
www.wiltel.com would tell you this.
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Jo Rhett wrote:
>
> This morning we have started receive an abundance of spam from Wiltel
> customers, pointing boldly back to websites hosted in Wiltel space.
>
> OrgAbuseHandle: WAC18-ARIN
> OrgAbuseName: Wiltel Abuse Contact
> OrgAbusePhone: +1-918-547-2000
> OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@wiltel.com
>
> Messages to abuse@wiltel.com are being rejected.
>
> This phone number goes to their "conferencing group", which doesn't know
> what 'abuse' is, or even what an IP network is.
>
> I went through 4 levels of management, and was informed that they no longer
> had an abuse team -- that this was disbanded in a recent reorganization.
>
> In short, it would appear that Wiltel is now selling pink contracts.
>
>
--
Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben
Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
