Not operational, but related to the attendees in Philly

I'm getting a rash of emails (as are some of my colleagues at work that are attending in Philly) from vendors that act like they know me, and just want to "have a drink and catch up while in Philly".

Just me, or are others seeing an increase in spam from vendors that will be there?

-b

That does not seem to be unique to nanog.

Oh I know, it's just never happened to me until this nanog, and I've been attending off/on since '94. (Ok, I probably got a few here and there).

I just need to get older and more crotchety-er like Randy, maybe they'll leave me alone.

-b

I have been getting some from vendors that already have my email, and/or already have a relationship with. Nothing from someone I've never dealt with before. If that is what you are getting, then that is pretty slimy.

-Randy

No, but it is annoying that "vendors" do seem to scrape the nanog attendee list and feel it's ok to spam those people.