[members-discuss] Database Abuse

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.
>
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>
>
> *Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations
> +31 6 175 444 72 <+31617544472>
>
>


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