<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear Ronald,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the information.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research about them?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully pointed out <a href="https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4">https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4</a> , they seem to be the only upstream provider that still routes Afrinic’s stolen IP.</div><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers,<br>Emem William<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io</a>>, <a href="mailto:libren@tuta.io" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">libren@tuta.io</a> wrote:<br>
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>Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?<br>
<br>
I am a real person and this is my real name.<br>
<br>
Who are YOU? An what is YOUR real name?<br>
<br>
>You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?<br>
<br>
That is correct. I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media. And<br>
that is certainly by intent.<br>
<br>
Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my<br>
personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have<br>
elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet<br>
for people I don't know to snoop on.<br>
<br>
If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.<br>
<br>
>I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even<br>
>part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest<br>
>in community mailing list?<br>
<br>
I am so glad you asked.<br>
<br>
Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign<br>
that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. The tag line<br>
contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What<br>
happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." (The idea being sold is that people<br>
can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns<br>
without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most<br>
definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet. It<br>
spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.<br>
<br>
Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.<br>
<br>
It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered<br>
IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,<br>
and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,<br>
all around the world.<br>
<br>
I am not amused. And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively<br>
-foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address<br>
space.<br>
<br>
I sincerly wish it were otherwise. And I wish that AFRINIC would clean<br>
up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from<br>
Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear<br>
to be either corrupt or incompetent or both. (I know this is not the<br>
case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for<br>
principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate<br>
all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)<br>
<br>
I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the<br>
AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016. I have now been waiting for nearly<br>
four and half years for someone with guts to step forward, do the Right<br>
Thing, and clean up this colossal mess. I am still waiting.<br>
<br>
>There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone<br>
>with your findings.<br>
<br>
Others may disagree.<br>
<br>
>Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.<br>
<br>
See above. It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members. What happens<br>
in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.<br>
<br>
The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire planet's<br>
worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly<br>
hacked and spammed. And it is still doing so even as we speak.<br>
<br>
Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?<br>
<br>
You, apparently.<br>
<br>
Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
rfg<br>
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