In message , Mark Foster writes:

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[Regarding an apparently fairly widespread email to people "involved in the local internet / computer industry."]

Speaking of which; any representatives of Michael's upstream present on the list? If so you can colour this as an official complaint about the UCE from Michael Hallager as he obviously doesn't see the reason that NZNOG have such a low opinion of him.

I sent a report to abuse@$UPSTREAMISP around 17:30 with full details. I assume someone at $UPSTREAMISP will deal with it tomorrow. Meanwhile the reaction is hopefully a sufficient demonstration that sending advertising (spam) to "individuals who we have found on the New Zealand internet" is fairly counter productive if your aim is to attract new customers. Particularly when the spam goes to those involved in running the networks. So hopefully there will not be a repeat. Ewen