Re: RIPE DB misuse?

[Nate Waddoups <]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, [iso-8859-1] Lars Marowsky-Brée wrote:

> I know we can't do anything about it. Still, I would like to point out that
> about a week ago, I started to receive spam at an email address used
> _exclusively_ for communicating with the RIPE NCC, and I think it is mentioned
> in a few "Changed:" lines in the RIPE DB.

For what it's worth, this has been a problem for my Internic contact
address for a couple of years now, and it's been an extremely effective
spam-magnet for the last few weeks in particular.

I'm tempted to launch into a big rant & rave about spam rendering useful
communication channels useless, the "tragedy of the commons," and so on,
but I suspect that most people on this list are already all too familiar
with the situation. :-/