Got this message to me directly as well as through the list.
@6x7 this list is NOT to be scrapped for email addresses for your marketing purposes. This is complete garbage. I’ll be sending a message directly to kar@6by7.net as well.
high speed, safe, secure global fiber connectivity
More importantly, can someone tell me what ‘safe global fiber connectivity’ is? As opposed to ‘unsafe global fiber connectivity’?
Do these guys have the market cornered on not string fiber optic cable at throat-level across roads or something?
Freaking marketing droids.
-A
I’m sure the implication that “safe, secure” refers to less susceptibility to eavesdropping. But of course fiber can still be tapped trivially with angle-of-incidence intercept taps.
-mel
When I saw the ‘lady ben cannon’ I thought we were about to be the lucky recipient of a large sum of money left by a prince, I’m fairly disappointed now.
Hi all, we never intended to spam the list, that was a total screw-up on our part, one I take full responsibility for. A list of exclusions got included. Please accept my sincere apologies.
Our key differentiator is that we encrypt our backbone links. All of ‘em. So we say we’re another layer to get through in a security policy. Idea being your data are marginally safer with us than being blasted in the clear.
Again, sorry for including the list in our list like total nimrods.
Other providers don't account for the effects of photonic friction and the resulting generation of heat in their fiber lines. This has resulted in at least one documented case of spontaneous combustion resulting in damage to fiber lines[1].
6x7 controls for photonic friction by utilizing its proprietary SPAM (Specified Photonic Agitation Moderation) technology.
[1] Uncle Cletus (1993) Mind control, spontaneous combustion and other extraterrestrial phenoma. /Lecture at Billy-Sue's house./
All,
Ben is fairly regular on this list and I can’t imagine she did this on purpose.
I’m sure she’ll see this thread and fix it. Relax…
-Matt
Ben is fairly regular on this list and I can't imagine she did this on purpose.
How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/ add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full header personalization?
This *REALLY* seems like a blatant scrape of -- now I have a good idea -- the NANOG mailing list.
I for one have black listed 6x7 on all email servers that I have administrative control over.
I'm sure she'll see this thread and fix it. Relax...
I don't know. I think it was far more intentional than accidental.
It was also spammed to other lists as well...
-Mike
accidentally on purpose.
-Dan
How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/
add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full
header personalization?
All mass-mail systems I’m aware of offer to scrape your own contacts when you first sign up. Anyone who has ever started or replied to a Nanog thread is in everyone else’s contact list, including the list address itself.
I don’t think the list was scraped, Ben’s contacts were. One implies malice, the other, a lack of foresight.
Ben is active enough here to know one would be crucified and/or humiliated for scraping the list, both were the case here.
-Matt
Once upon a time, Matt Erculiani <merculiani@gmail.com> said:
All mass-mail systems I'm aware of offer to scrape your own contacts when
you first sign up.
Really? Mailchimp scrapes your contacts to spam as "opt-in"? If you
can show that's true, then Mailchimp needs to be blocked as spammers.
My experience with Mailchimp though requires you to submit addresses for
a list, so spam like this is purely intentional.
Apparently, Ben didn’t use “safe and secure” fiber lines for his emails 
-mel
Oh dear, what will poor Kenya ever do :-)…
Mark.
Clearly the target is non-African customers with Africa on a to-do list...
This, I want to see...
Mark.
I think the implication was some measure of superiority compared to existing operators, for anyone who signs texts based on how many buzz words are in the schpill.
Mark.
Our key differentiator is that we encrypt our backbone links.
care to give detail of the tech used?
randy
Hi all, we never intended to spam the list, that was a total screw-up on our part, one I take full responsibility for. A list of exclusions got included. Please accept my sincere apologies.
...
Again, sorry for including the list in our list like total nimrods.
Mistakes happen.
Thank you for the overview of what happened.
In my (not so) humble opinion, polite overviews go a long way to smoothing feathers.
#learningOpportunity
Competence signaling: technical competence very low.
I don’t expect the majority of nanog people to know the intended data rate would properly be notated as 8 Tbit/s, but a space after the number, an upper case T, and not confusing Tera (SI prefix for 1 Trillion) with Terra (earth), is about the minimum I would expect from a technical person.
With that, we return to the regular spam bashing.
Grüße, Carsten