[c-nsp] OT: Pingsta spam

[Jay Hennigan]

Anyone on-list heard of pingsta.com?  Within the last hour I've received 
ten "invitations" to join them as an "internetwork expert".

My immediate reaction is to never do business with spammers, but I'm 
curious if anyone else here has heard of them, and if they may be 
scraping addresses from this list.  They claim to be invitation only, 
but if that's the case some anonymous person has invited me several 
times in the last few minutes.  Whois turns up nothing useful.  They're 
hiding behind a GoDaddy anonymizer, not a good sign.  DNS by netdojo.net 
which has a Mailboxes, Etc. address in San Jose.

So they are either outright spammers or clueless enough to run an 
invitation system that has no rate-limiting or sanity checking or both.

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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
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