cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Mon Oct 2 22:41:30 UTC 2023

Patrick,

It’s a sales pitch, and ARIN acknowledges it violates their terms and has taken action.

 -mel

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 2:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
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>  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.
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> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2023, at 14:58, Tim Burke <tim at mid.net> wrote:
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>> 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".
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>> compliance at 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.net at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mel Beckman
>> Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 10:28 AM
>> To: nanog list <nanog at 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -mel beckman
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