cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?

Wed Oct 4 17:14:10 UTC 2023

My best guess is “Life As We Know It Will Be Over”, but that’s just a guess.

Owen

> On Oct 2, 2023, at 17:32, Collider <large.hadron.collider at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> So is LAWKIWBO, which is the correct acronym mentioned downthread.
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> Le 3 octobre 2023 00:29:08 UTC, Collider <large.hadron.collider at gmx.com> a écrit :
>> Congrats! LIOAWKI is a hapax legomenon in DuckDuckGo's search results! Could you please tell me & the list what it means?
>> 
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>> Le 2 octobre 2023 15:28:03 UTC, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> a écrit :
>>> 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
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