In this case, it came from a person with the title of “Global Account Manager”. Unless sales people are handling peering requests all of a sudden, it’s definitely a sales pitch.
> On Oct 2, 2023, at 16:47, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote: > > Has anyone replied? > > If this is a peering request, not sure that is a bad use of the AS contact > info. > > If it is a sales pitch, then yeah, that’s a problem. > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > >> On Oct 2, 2023, at 14:58, Tim Burke <t...@mid.net> wrote: >> >> Hurricane has been doing the same thing lately... but their schtick is to >> say that "we are seeing a significant amount of hops in your AS path and >> wanted to know if you are open to resolve this issue". >> >> complia...@arin.net is about all that can be done, other than public shaming! >> >> Other outfits have been spamming using the nanog attendees list, but I guess >> that’s not as bad as the continued scraping of ARIN records, so I won't call >> them out... yet, at least. 😊 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tim=mid....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman >> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM >> To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org> >> Subject: cogent spamming directly from ARIN records? >> >> 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 >
