[members-discuss] Database Abuse

Of course there are ways around every system, but at least finding my
social media contacts requires effort.
Perhaps this is something for one of the RIPE Hackathons. I recognise the
need for automated crawling (automatic abuse notice from honeypots), but we
need to do something.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Lu Heng <h.lu at outsideheaven.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I think the only thing one can do is increase technical difficulty for
> mass gathering DB personal emails.
>
> For personal contact...I mean we are at social network age, if someone
> really wants to contact you, they always can.
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 17:36 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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