Removal of selected sets of contact information from the RIPE Database

Dear Hank,

I can think of a couple of reasons for requesting this but bear in mind:

-We are talking about the deletion of around 2.8 million objects
-The only potential link between a person and a country is the address
field, which does not necessarily contain a country
- Exposing such a list would make a spammers dream. We have tried to
protect personal information in the RIPE Database by preventing buld
download of personal information and controlling the rate of queries. If
we now expose a list of all this information we will doing precisely what
we want to avoid

Could you put forward some arguments for having this data exposed so we
can all weight pros and cons?

Thanks,
Joao Damas
RIPE NCC

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
>
> Can a list of "to be deleted" objects per country be posted or if not, how
> about after the fact, as to which objects have been deleted per country?
>
> Thanks,
> Hank