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Tim Armstrong
t.armstrong at nerdalize.com
Tue Sep 5 10:39:25 CEST 2017
And while we are at it, perhaps we could do something about all the freaking Bots on this mailing list? I just got eight auto-replies! On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Tim Armstrong <t.armstrong at nerdalize.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Every so often this issue crops up it's ugly head again, RIPE DB abuse is > a real problem. > Yet again we are receiving unsolicited sales pitches via an e-mail address > we only use for the contact details in our RIPE DB entries. > > We've all seen it; people offering to buy IPv4 blocks, people offering to > sell IPv4 blocks, DDoS filtering, etc. It's a plague of poorly constructed > pitches for services none of us want to waste time reading about. If we > want such products, we all know how find them, and yet the e-mails don't > stop coming. > > I am not one for publicly shaming other members of the community, but if > it doesn't stop, I don't see how I have a choice. They need to learn that > database abuse leads to boycott. > The database is an operations tool for de-bugging and reporting issues & > abuse; not a sales team's list of "potential leads". > > I hate to bring this subject up again, but is there really nothing > structural we can do about this? > At a minimum we could occlude e-mail addresses from the public DB, instead > having public complaint submitted via a webform on the NCC website, > requiring the uninitiated to realise this is an abuse / complaint contact, > not a sales opportunity. > > > Thanks, > Tim. > > -- > > > *Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations > +31 6 175 444 72 <+31617544472> > > -- *Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations +31 6 175 444 72 <+31617544472> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/attachments/20170905/2d650d7a/attachment.html>
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