And how do you tell if an address was scraped or not? There are databases and zillions of other ways of gaining addresses. I doubt you can distinguish the source with any real reliability. - R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 11:05 PM To: Jon Lewis Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Dave Temkin wrote:
This is highly inaccurate. The PC and Board have done everything in our
power to keep sponsorship out of the program. Yes, Beer & Gear looks like a NASCAR race, but that helps fund not only the program, but the numerous other outreach programs that NANOG has undertaken.
Sponsors who have stepped on the rules have had their sponsorship rights revoked - temporarily, and in egregious cases, permanently. We (the NANOG organization) take this incredibly seriously.
While it's hard to solve for the exact case above (scraping registrant lists and then comparing to CRM to glean contact info) we absolutely do aggressively pursue any abuse of NANOG's attendee information, trademarks, and mailing list.
Is it too simple a solution to post a warning on the page above the Attendee List saying something along the lines of "scraping the Attendee List for marketing purposes is forbidden, will result in public shaming, and may cause some attendees to completely boycott your company." ?
This suggestion was made on the NANOG Facebook group and we will implement it with the new website coming before NANOG 71. -Dave