<div dir="ltr">Today while negotiating with Cogent for connectivity in the WOW 226 Datacenter I sent a copy of the original email and told them I will NEVER use Cogent for my customers due to this kind of activity. <br><br>Imagine if everyone else follows suit. <br><br>When they go low - make sure others know you are unwilling to use them. <div><br>-- When they do call my cell and I know it is them I answer with <br><br>Thank you for calling the Mental Health Hotline.    If you are dislexic  please dial 696969696969  ;-) <br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small"><b>Glenn S. Kelley, <br></b></span><span style="font-size:small">I am a <a href="http://Connectivity.Engineer" target="_blank">Connectivity.Engineer</a> </span><div>Text and Voice Direct:  <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice">740-206-9624</span></span></span><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><img width="200" height="63" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xqPKqCniC_pnx0eY4pG2B5iZ7Og4fKQpgfllgCp6dQEJFECNn1GUAwjb8nDsjhtv-BBVb-_y4"><br>a Division of </span></span></span><a href="https://creatingnet.works/" target="_blank">CreatingNet.Works</a>   </div></div><div><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="1" color="#0b5394">IMPORTANT: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify Glenn Kelley, the sender, immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies thereof.</font></span><br></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:25 PM Jon Sands <<a href="mailto:fohdeesha@gmail.com">fohdeesha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>Cogent getting involved in absolutely
      obnoxious and shady sales tactics that they'll seemingly never
      address or do anything about? Why I never<br>
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    <div>On 8/5/2022 4:20 PM, Dennis Burgess
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">So we just
            got an email from cogent, we have told them time and time
            again to stop calling and stop emailing.  We tell them are
            good on bandwidth and we don’t need any of their services..
            They then sent us a e-mail stating that they saw us coming
            though one of their customers networks from us, and figured
            we would want to buy direct instead of going though one of
            their customers. Yes COGENT stated this; well at least one
            of their sales reps.  Sounds underhanded, shady, and
            unethical to me.    Just figured I would post about it; see
            if I am making a mountain out of a mole hill
          </span><span>😊</span><span style="font-size:12pt">
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Here is the
            e-mail:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">"Hey
              (redacted) ,<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Maybe
              there is a misunderstanding. (ISP’s name removed) is a
              cogent customer who we provide upstream to.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">My
              initial inquiry was to see if it makes sense for Link
              Technologies to be utilizing our network instead of
              through (ISP’s name removed). That way we could be a
              direct network for you.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Would
              that be at all something that interests you?<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Eric
              Gogerty | Global Account Manager | AS 174<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Cogent
              Communications | Minneapolis, MN (United States Of
              America)| <a href="http://www.cogentco.com" target="_blank">www.cogentco.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Contact:
              612-217-5506| email: <a href="mailto:egogerty@cogentco.com" target="_blank">egogerty@cogentco.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">The
              Internet, Unleashed!"<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><img style="width: 1.1666in; height: 0.3333in;" id="gmail-m_-547610297341904434Picture_x0020_2" alt="LTI-Full_175px" width="112" height="32"></span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dennis Burgess<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
              Mikrotik : </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Trainer,
              Network Associate, Routing Engineer, Wireless Engineer,
              Traffic Control Engineer, Inter-Networking Engineer,
              Security Engineer, Enterprise Wireless Engineer<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hurricane Electric:
            </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">IPv6
              Sage Level</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Cambium:
            </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">ePMP</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
              <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Author of "Learn
            RouterOS- Second Edition”
          </span><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Link Technologies,
              Inc</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
            -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
          </span><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Office</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">: 314-735-0270 
            Website:
          </span><a href="http://www.linktechs.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue">http://www.linktechs.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
          </span><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Create Wireless
            Coverage’s with
          </span><a href="http://www.towercoverage.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue">www.towercoverage.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Need MikroTik Cloud
            Management:
            <a href="https://cloud.linktechs.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://cloud.linktechs.net</span></a>
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">How
              did we do today?</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=5badbac1&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9MSZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 0.5208in; height: 0.3229in;" id="gmail-m_-547610297341904434Picture_x0020_9" alt="Gold Star" width="50" height="31" border="0"></span></a><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=675abe04&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9MiZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 0.5208in; height: 0.3229in;" id="gmail-m_-547610297341904434Picture_x0020_8" alt="Green
                Light" width="50" height="31" border="0"></span></a><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=e42b48a5&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9MyZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 0.5208in; height: 0.3229in;" id="gmail-m_-547610297341904434Picture_x0020_7" alt="Yellow
                Light" width="50" height="31" border="0"></span></a><a href="https://app.customerthermometer.com/?template=log_feedback&hash=ecaadcd3&embed_data=dGVtcGVyYXR1cmVfaWQ9NCZ0aGVybW9tZXRlcl9pZD0xMTM1NjYmbnBzX3JhdGluZz0tMQ==&e=Anonymous&f=Dennis&l=Burgess&c=&c1=&c2=&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c7=&c8=&c9=&c10=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 0.5208in; height: 0.3229in;" id="gmail-m_-547610297341904434Picture_x0020_6" alt="Red Light" width="50" height="31" border="0"></span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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    <p><br>
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    <pre cols="72">-- 
Jon Sands
MFI Labs
<a href="https://fohdeesha.com/" target="_blank">https://fohdeesha.com/</a></pre>
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