Modifying references to contact info in the RIPE DB

 Bernard Steiner <bs at eunet.ch> writes:
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 * > That the original person referenced got deleted some time in the past and 
 * a new one with the same name was introduced into the database.
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 * Coming to think about it...
 * How about catching such (obvious) cases where the first changed date of the
 * person is younger or either of the changed dates is not available ?
 * How much human intelligence would that require to sort out ?

As a philosopher said some time ago: "I am me and my circumstances". This also 
applies to the RIPE Database (and in a very big measure). I guess everyone 
remembers the (in)famous -c changes and how many changed lines (particularly 
the old ones) disappeared during that period.

We can do the check you propose and see how many objects would not get 
modified. If it happens to be a small number we can look at them individually. 
If not it is back to square one.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Joao

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 * Bernard
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