Mel, I will reply to you off list. Thanks. On 10/2/23, 11:28 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" <nanog-bounces+jsweeting=arin....@nanog.org <mailto:arin....@nanog.org> on behalf of m...@beckman.org <mailto:m...@beckman.org>> wrote:
This morning I received an email from someone at Cogent asking about an ASN I administer. They didn’t give any details, but I assumed it might be related to some kind of network transport issue. I replied cordially, asking them what they needed. The person then replied with a blatant spam, advertising Cogent IP services, in violation of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act’s prohibition against deceptive UCE. I believe they got the contact information from ARIN, because the ARIN technical POC is the only place where my name and the ASN are connected. I believe this is a violation of Cogent’s contract with ARIN. Does anybody know how I can effectively report this to ARIN? If we can’t even police infrastructure providers for spamming, LIOAWKI. -mel beckman
