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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by Eikon on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:50AM (#21978791)
What’s crazy is that when buying IP transit for a freaking ISP, your are not shopping for some chocolate at the supermarket.

I would hope most network administrators would know enough about their job to not fall for car-salesman kind ridiculous methods.

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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by o-__-o on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:51AM (#21981710)
it is not the network administrators making those calls or putting them on that list. a job many moons ago:

my phone: ringing off the hook for the past three days. WHY.

CEO: "hey we need better internet access at the new office, I setup a call with Cogent, let me know how it goes"

my phone: answered to find its cogent blowing me up

Cogent: car-salesman methods

me: I quit

Cogent every two months since then: "hey I heard you left your job, any need for business internet access?"

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