Re: Fwd: BLOCK: RIPE

[Steve Atkins <]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:01:48AM +0200, Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX/UniVie wrote:
>     Hmmm,  reasonable diligence or epidemic paranoia ?

Epidemic paranoia. Daniel Norton is widely known as a total loon.
(He's sent me random threatening lawyer letters in the past...)

Cheers,
  Steve
    
>     Just got this one forwarded, thought it might be worth letting you know
>     ...
> 
>     Cheers
>     CP
>     
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> Subject:      BLOCK: RIPE
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> RIPE's database is down for an indeterminate period of time.  Since it
> might be impossible to determine an abuse contact address without the
> RIPE database, you might wish to consider blocking all RIPE traffic
> until they get things back in order.   Here are the RIPE IP address
> ranges:
> 
>     24.132/14