All, Myth: NANOG supposed to be the gold standard for best practices. Fact: 500 spam messages over the weekend. Myth: there were no complaints and this issue was raised over the weekend Fact: I raised it this weekend via twitter twice @NANOG, and requested contact from SCNET (NANOG's upstream) trying to find a live person to shut it off. Myth: blah blah blah social media is a bad way to get ahold of netops/abuse. Fact: Social media is an acceptable way to report abuse. My marketing department certainly knows how to get ahold of me when such an issue occurs. It's 2015, and if you and everyone you know isn't watching twitter I can't help you, because you've gone braindead. Myth: but you could have reached out to someone else and maybe done something to stop this quickly. Fact: I reached out to several people at ARIN and elsewhere trying to get a live person at NANOG to no avail. Myth: this is acceptable because NANOG has political clout in the US and elsewhere. Fact: If I was still running the AHBL, NANOG would be it's own private intranet right now. Andrew