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kissg at sztaki.hu kissg at sztaki.hu
Fri Jun 5 18:09:45 CEST 1998

> > Then the whole db software could be modified in such a way that
> > it reponses just a fake line (changed: you-are at not.interested.in-it 990101)
> > unless the query contains a "-C almost_secret_password_here" option.
> > The so called "password" might be retrieved by e-mail
> > from the RIPE NCC.
> 
> This would obviously help the registries but other users of the RIPE-DB
> might be left out by this solution.

"Other users" are not really interested in the real e-mail address
of changer. This field is needed only by administrators who want to
delete the object because they have to send back the exact copy of
the record.

Regards

Gabor

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