Hah. This comes from UltraDNS, the company that makes cold calls beginning with "my wife couldn't access your web page the other night". See: http://ignite.blackened.net/misc/salespitch.wav

-----Original Message----- From: Rachel Luxemburg [mailto:rslux@link-net.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:04 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database

At 07:52 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:

You can't purchase an opt-in list. Period.

That would depend on how the list was built. If the list subscribers signed up knowing that the list would be sold to 3rd party companies then AFAIK it would not be spamming.

Regards,

Rachel

----------------------------- Rachel Luxemburg Sr. Product Manager, UltraDNS http://www.ultradns.com <http://www.ultradns.com/> Voice: (650) 227-2684