Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

Wed Jun 14 13:22:40 UTC 2017

Ge,

On the contrary, the discussion has been limited, focused, and amazingly civil for NANOG :)

I find it valuable.

 -mel

On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:33 AM, Ge Dupin <gdupin at taho.fr<mailto:gdupin at taho.fr>> wrote:

It looks like there are more spams coming from these discussions than from the original Scams/Spams..
Ge

Le 14 juin 2017 à 14:26, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe at centergate.com<mailto:rjoffe at centergate.com>> a écrit :

On Jun 13, 2017, at 10:28 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org<mailto:mel at beckman.org>> wrote:

But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. And the requirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails is pointless, because how do you prove that someone did that?

Because he said so?

The spammer had the balls to say, in his email:

We do not know each other. I'm leveraging the attendee list for NANOG to reach out and raise awareness of the value of OCS (Optical Circuit Switching) in the data center and in particular, the Carrier Neutral Hotel where we've been active with next generation MeetMeRoom discussions.