[anti-abuse-wg] whois access

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Frank Gadegast:
>
Hi Florian,

>> There defny should be a system like this to hide all personal
>> email addresses from all kind of harvesting, simply because
>> its personal data and RIPE NCC has no reason to give it to
>> other people and it needs to be protected much better
>> (at least according to German law).
>
> Surely there are exceptions.  Obviously, RIPE NCC should continue to
> operate mailing lists.  Your proposal would prevent RIPE NCC from doing
> that.
>
> Come to think of it, from a privacy point of view, I don't see much of a
> difference between submitting a mail message to RIPE NCC for publication
> and distribution over a mailing list, and a person: object for
> publication and distribution using the RIPE database.

Not every spammer can harvest all addresses daily ;o)

eMail lists are collected by specialists over years and handed over to
several spammers, thats why a lot of addresses are outdated before a
spammer starts using them.
And surely they cannot seperate working from outdated addresses, because
the sending address is always faked and any "User unknown" return
email, bounce or whatever feedback from the receivers mail server
will never reach the spammer itself.

So, spams will be heavily reduced, if the random address at
ripe used to forward mails to a personal email address in any object is
changing on a regular basis.

Harvesting the proxy addresses, lets say, on a daily basis, will surely
not be possible, because of the whois restructions on whois.


Kind regards, Frank
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