Actually, that does come as a surprise to me. They used to have a fellow who worked the abuse desk. Dave something I appologise I can't remember his last name. He was very good at follow-up and followed up on everything from spam complaints to infected machines, worms etc. I have no idea if he's still there but he was quite good and I would think they would respond to this issue. At one time Cogent did take spam very seriously but maybe that's changed. On Tue, 6 May 2003, Scott Francis wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:20:43AM +0100, Richard@mandarin.com said: [snip]
I personally telephoned Cogent's NOC two days ago to ensure they were aware of the situation; I also attempted to reach Michael J. Hammons (Sr. Director of Operations at Cogent) when no action was taken, but was unable to reach him and my call was not subsequently returned.
based on Cogent's apparent unwillingness to terminate their spamming customers (AS7869 - RelayPoint; but see also http://spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=cogentco.com&-nothing=Search), this comes as not much of a surprise to me, at least.
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