RIPE Database files.

[ CC'ed to the db-wg list since my question and your answer seems 
  to be of interest for more people ]

Ambrose,

RIPE Database Administration writes:
> 
> In particular, the person and role objects will only be available 
> if you agree to follow an acceptable use policy.  
> 
> ... 
> 
> The text files containing the whole database 
> 
>   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz 
> 
> and 
> 
>   ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.long.gz 
> 
> will be removed.

Are you removing the complete files ?!?

I would appreciate if you could keep the files but without the person and
role objects. This way, I (and probably other people) don't need to
change any of my (their) scripts,

Thanks in advance,

David K.
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