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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AOL caves in to spammers
Steve Sobol wrote: > AOL didn't cave in. Reuters and BusinessWire ran a PRESS > RELEASE from Harris, and traceroutes to AOL still showed > AboveNet as of yesterday. The "news" article didn't contain > any quotes from AOL, AboveNet, MAPS or anyone besides > Harris. > > Harris's stock is in a lot of trouble and my bet is that they lied... > they posted a "clarification" yesterday, but they're still full of > crap... The three rules of spamfighting from news.admin.net-abuse.email apply here, I think... 1) Spammers lie. 2) If you think a spammer is telling the truth, see 1) 3) Spammers are stupid. -- North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron, OH [email protected] - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
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