Re: Spamming using whois information

[Mally Mclane <]

Hi Sebastian,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Sebastian Willing wrote:

> Hello!
>
> "Any use of this material to target advertising or similar activities is
> explicitly forbidden and may be prosecuted."
>
> >From time to time, our RIPE-notification mailrobot gets spam messages. As his
> address is used nowhere, except within the Whois-DB, every spammer using this
> address had to scan the Whois-DB to get it.
>
> Could/would the RIPE take actions at least against these spammers?

We do monitor access to the database and if we see instances where we
believe email addresses are being harvested, we will block them from
accessing the database.

If you require further detailed information on how we monitor it, please
email ripe-dbm@localhost.


Cheers,



Mally Mclane
RIPE NCC Operations