[c-nsp] OT: Possible List Troll/Spammer..

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Howard Leadmon
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:12 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] OT: Possible List Troll/Spammer..
>
>
>
>  After posting to the list last week, sure enough I got a Cisco reseller
> solicitation from a Matt Martyniuk [mmartyniuk at f5technology.com] to buy or
> sell Cisco gear.  I looked back at the past years archive, and I
> don't see a
> single posting from this person on the list, so can only assume they are
> trolling/spamming people on here looking for business,
>

Unless your e-mail was part of a generic multi-address e-mail blast, it
isn't spamming, it is the e-mail equivalent of cold-calling,
or "dialing for dollars".  You haven't posted the entire mail so
we can't make that call just by what your posting here.

If you only get a single mail from them and no followup, (assuming
you don't contact them) then if it's NOT part of an e-mail spam
run, I am not sure how this is any more
objectionable than if they called you on the phone.

There isn't any "national do-not-email list, but if these solicitations
bug you, put something in your .sig saying no solicitations.

Ted