With respect to both FusionDigital and Strongnet, I have talked to both companies / people involved, and let them know that I don't approve of the way that they choose to do their marketing. However in the case of both companies, they have their own netwblocks and are simply routed via us - so if we cut them off they would simply move to another provider of wholesale services like Global-Gateway. A suggestion has been made by more than one party that if we don't cut StrongNet off, then this will result in Orcon's netblocks being blocked from other networks. Considering that we support around 40 ISP's and many web hosting companies this is not constructive at all - I would point out again that most ISP's that connect through us actually have their own netblocks - so blocking just those ranges if people are going to take that course of action would be more sensible - however I don't agree with blocking any ranges at all because it 'breaks the Internet'. I find it strange that if an ISP on Global-Gateway or Clear's network spams - then the ISP is contacted and not Global-Gateway, but if an ISP spams via our network, then we are generally contacted and abused directly. Cheers Seeby Orcon Internet - www.orcon.net.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Smith" <gordons(a)morenet.net.nz> To: "Nznog" <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:18 PM Subject: FW: Asia Online
I'd probably agree with Mark that a warning was in order, if not for the fact that we received spam from another Orcon customer, FusionDigital, only last month. That one was trying to sell me bandwidth, ports, etc
Come on Seeby, I think some serious LARTing is in order...
Gordon
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