OT: Interesting email I received
Gregory Hicks
ghicks at cadence.com
Fri Feb 1 23:35:30 UTC 2002
I may have jumped the gun a bit - although the name is suggestive...
It looks like CnS Systems, Inc is a business in NC...
Gregory
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:15:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks>
>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:37:04 -0500
> > From: John Neiberger <neiby at ureach.com>
> >
> >
> > Hmm...I'm still able to reach that site as of 3:30 Mountain
> > time. Perhaps his service hasn't been discontinued after all.
> > We can only hope, though. Surely Qwest won't continue to let
> > this bonehead use their network.
> >
> > Perhaps this is actually a Qwest front company and they're
> > trying to lure people into using their bulkmailing services.
> > By doing this they can get a lot of the bulk mails to at least
> > have the same set of source IP addresses making them easier to
> > filter for the rest of us. :-) Sort of like a honey pot for
> > idiots, because in this case they'd even be paying to use it.
>
> Actually, I don't believe that it *is* a front for quest. One of the
> responses I got from whois indicated that the name is owned by
> "CnS Systems, Inc" ...
>
> Can anyone say "Cantor and ..." The people that brought the art of
> spam to its current unloved height?
>
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
>
> >
> > ---- On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Joe Blanchard (jblanchard at wyse.com)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I just had to call that number on his web page
> > > and ask if it was some sort of joke, The guy
> > > there "Paul" didn't have any idea that his
> > > services were disrupted, and he even seemed
> > > excited at the prospect of doing some Bulk/Spam
> > > Email for me.
> > >
> > > When I mentioned I couldn't get to his webpage
> > > He seemed surprised. I ended the convo with
> > > "You should really read the TOS with your ISP" <click>
> > >
> > > hahaha. I would love to hear the conversation between him
> > > and Qwest Tech/Support.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > -Joe
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Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer
Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609
555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3479
San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: ghicks at cadence.com
"The trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was."
When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as
one... the sky's the limit.
"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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