Digex and Akamai are raping the ARIN whois database

Nothing like the smell of spam in the morning - coming to you through the
"benevolent" acts of Akamai and Digex - sent to POC handles blatantly stolen
from ARIN's whois database.

Yo, Digex: this just reminds me how much your "sales team" sucked the last
time around, when there was a DS3 contract up for grabs on an RFP.
This spam certainly cuts you out of any future consideration for a while:
You'll find yourself in good company with Savvis, I am sure.

Sep 4 11:4x:xx host sendmail[14500]: LAA14500: from=<bounces@bounce.innovyx.com>, size=10198, class=0, pri=40198, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200109041542.LAA14183@host>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, relay=shiner.innovyx.com [63.143.186.194] (may be forged)
Sep 4 11:4x:xx host sendmail[14500]: LAA14500: to=<CENSORED@TLD>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent

[censored]
Received-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:4x:xx -0400 (EDT)
Received: from shiner.innovyx.com (shiner.innovyx.com [63.143.186.194] (may be forged))
        by [censored].com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14500
        for <ADDRESS-STOLEN-FROM-ARIN-WHOIS-DB@TLD>; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:4x:xx -0400 (EDT)
Received: by shiner.innovyx.com (PowerMTA(TM) v1.0); Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:4x:xx -0700 (envelope-from <bounces@bounce.innovyx.com>)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:41 -0700
From: digexakamai <digexakamai-[censored]@m2.innovyx.com>
Reply-to: digexakamai <digexakamai-[censored]@m2.innovyx.com>
Subject: You're Invited
To: ADDRESS-STOLEN-FROM-ARIN-WHOIS-DB@TLD
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-------=_8418644195"

We're sending you this invitation because we received your e-mail
address from one of our marketing partners. If you'd like to receive
future emails, please click here:
http://edge.akamai.com/redir.asp?[censored]&SubscriberID=[censored]
Not confirming your interest automatically leaves you unsubscribed and
we will not send you future emails. Additionally, each issue you receive
as a subscriber will contain unsubscription instructions.

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Ah, I knew this was coming.

For the record:

  Digex.net does not do any sort of web hosting. Digex.com does not
do any sort of leased line sales. They're vastly different companies
these days. You did, however, send your complaint to the correct
address (digex.com). Folks, please follow Kai's example, and let
abuse@digex.com (and your digex.com salesperson, if you have one)
know exactly what you think of this.

  I'm sure I'm going to hear a lot about this over the next few days,
and I'm hoping that everybody realizes that the digex.net/icix.net
folks have nothing to do with this whatsoever. I have no idea if
digex.com knew what they were getting into with this. I hope they
did not. Please, though, don't harrass/mailbomb us IBI/digex.net
folks. We're innocent. I swear.

  And Kai, I'm sorry our sales force let you down. I'm more ashamed
to admit you're not the only one.

-Dave

Mr. Israel already knows this. I'm posting it for the benefit of the other
participants. :slight_smile:

Ah, I knew this was coming.

For the record:

  Digex.net does not do any sort of web hosting. Digex.com does not
do any sort of leased line sales.

Digex.net is Intermedia. Digex.com is Digex, the web hosting arm of
Worldcom.

and I'm hoping that everybody realizes that the digex.net/icix.net
folks have nothing to do with this whatsoever. I have no idea if
digex.com knew what they were getting into with this. I hope they
did not. Please, though, don't harrass/mailbomb us IBI/digex.net
folks. We're innocent. I swear.

Intermedia is clued WRT abuse. (If they weren't, I wouldn't be an IBI
reseller.) In fact the person who is more or less in charge of abuse over
there is a friend of mine and is at least a lurker here -- However,
although I have the pleasure of knowing some of the people on the UUNET
abuse team - and there are plenty of people there who take joy in
thwacking spam and spammers - I don't know if they have any authority over
the other Worldcom divisions. Supposedly, if a UUNET sales droid spams,
they get spanked pretty hard. But this is Digex, not UUNET.

It is important to note that while they still use digex.net, IBI's name is
Intermedia Business Internet. Digex *is* strictly hosting, and I've been
corrected by my friend the abuse czar more than once. Digex != IBI; IBI !=
Digex. Digex is part of the "Degeneration D" Collective.

HTH. HAND.