[arin-discuss] ARIN spammed us with "talk to the hand" ?

[Rob Abraham]

agreed, i was blown away by that random "yeah we dont care" email

Robert Abraham
WishCom Internet
tel: 815.675.FAST x200
web: www.wishcom.net

On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett at svcolo.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain to me why ARIN spammed all of our ARIN contacts
> (including (A)buse contacts!) with a notice that says "talk to the
> hand" ?
>
>> If you or your peers experience any of these types of problems, you
>> are
>> encouraged to contact and work with third-party information software
>> vendors
>> and/or the content providers directly to effect changes.
>
> If ARIN can not and will not do anything to contact these parties and
> get it resolved, why does it send a notice telling us with this?  Next
> week will we see a notice that ARIN won't be involved in saving
> starving children in Africa?  I imagine that ARIN will be very busy
> informing us of every thing it does not plan to work on ... is this
> helpful?  Honestly?
>
> Entire message below:
>> Per a request from an ARIN customer, ARIN is sending you this letter
>> as
>> a courtesy notification of problems some registrants of ARIN-issued
>> IPv4
>> addresses have experienced.
>>
>> Some geolocation and content providers are misidentifying ARIN-issued
>> address space as being outside the ARIN region. Common problems
>> experienced
>> by ARIN registrants over the last two years include:
>>
>> - search engines misidentifying the addresses as being in South
>> America;
>> - content caching providers sending traffic via nodes in South
>> America; and
>> - e-commerce transactions failing or being delaying due to fraud
>> prevention
>> procedures being triggered when the payment processing system
>> believes the
>> transaction is originating in South America.
>>
>> Registrants have experienced these problems both with new IANA-
>> issued /8s
>> (like 173.0.0.0/8 and 174.0.0.0/8) and with /8s which ARIN has
>> issued and
>> re-issued over many years (like 63.0.0.0/8).
>>
>> If you or your peers experience any of these types of problems, you
>> are
>> encouraged to contact and work with third-party information software
>> vendors
>> and/or the content providers directly to effect changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leslie Nobile
>> Director, Registration Services
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers
> -- 
> Jo Rhett
> senior geek
>
> Silicon Valley Colocation
> Support Phone: 408-400-0550
>
>
>
>
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