Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database

Wed Sep 5 00:26:35 UTC 2001

Hah.  This comes from UltraDNS, the company that makes cold calls
beginning with "my wife couldn't access your web page the other night".

See: http://ignite.blackened.net/misc/salespitch.wav

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Luxemburg [mailto:rslux at link-net.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:04 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database
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> At 07:52 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
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> You can't purchase an opt-in list. Period.
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> That would depend on how the list was built. If the list subscribers signed
> up knowing that the list would be sold to 3rd party companies then AFAIK it
> would not be spamming.
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> Regards,
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> Rachel
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> Rachel Luxemburg
> Sr. Product Manager, UltraDNS
> http://www.ultradns.com <http://www.ultradns.com/>
> Voice: (650) 227-2684
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