who's receiving comvalid/bgpsentinel spam? (Re: BGP )

Thu Dec 15 14:04:16 UTC 2005

is anybody else receiving this spam when they advertise a new AS nowadays?
(i'm trying to figure out which whois information is being policy-violated
and who to complain about, but if i'm the only one receiving it, i may JHD.)

re:

# From: "Antony Gullusci" <gullusci at comvalid.com>
# To: <paul_vixie at isc.org>
# Subject: BGP
# Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:09:19 +0100
# X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
# 
# Hi!  I am Antony Gullusci from Comvalid, and I'd like to give you some
# additional information on Comvalid and what we can do for you, regarding
# BGP.
# 
# In the past 10 years, our mother company Inrete has made a good name
# managing Autonomous System and BGP routers.  
# 
# Now Comvalid offers to the broader market the precious internal tools that
# Inrete developed in order to manage the Autonomous System of its clients.
# 
# Since you manage a newly announced AS, we propose you free of charge, the
# use of our BGPsentinel service for one month. 
# BGPsentinel operates in the following way:
# 
# 1) constantly sniffs in different points the BGP traffic between BGP router
# receiving the full Internet mesh
# 2) extracts and stores all the data regarding the AS numbers and NETs of
# interest, and stores such data in a database
# 3) generates intelligent and context rich alarms, on the base of the
# detected and stored info
# 4) makes all the history pertaining the collected data always available for
# post-debug and forensic
# 
# You will have a user & password to access the data regarding you systems,
# and will be able to define specific alarms to be sent to you by mail, after
# one month the only thing we will ask you is to fill a short survey about the
# service with your opinion and your advices.
# 
# If you are interest in having a better control on what happens to your NETs
# and ASes, just reply me back  confirming that you are interested in having
# the following AS and NET's : 24051
# 203.119.20.0/24 
# 
# Checked by BGPsentinel
# 
# Looking forward to hear from you!
# 
# Antony Gullusci
# Email gullusci at comvalid.com
# 
# BGPsentinel Web http://www.comvalid.com/?pag=bs
# __________________________________________
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