[members-discuss] Cogent uses RIPE DB for spam

Hello,
On 13.06.2014, at 14:12, Andrei Kushnireuski wrote:
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> For me it's very bad practice for same company like Cogent to use RIPE DB for spamming. Did anybody receive same calls/emails based on RIPE DB info?

This is true for a lot of companies that use provision based payment.
As others said before, representatives change, and each of them has a 'new' and 'bright' idea to find new customers. 

The only thing that helps is not to respond to such offers, or complaining to their headquarters. Setting remarks in RIPE-DB is next to useless, as they employ mostly bad coded scripts to parse only the fields they need. Moving the telephone number or post-dial PIN to the remarks helps, as network admins tend to read full whois output, instead of parsed fields in excel.

Matthias


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