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Tim Armstrong
t.armstrong at nerdalize.com
Tue Sep 5 10:49:02 CEST 2017
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. >> >> -- >> >> >> *Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations >> +31 6 175 444 72 <+31617544472> >> >> ---- >> If you don't want to receive emails from the RIPE NCC members-discuss >> mailing list, please log in to your LIR Portal account and go to the >> general page: >> https://lirportal.ripe.net/general/ >> >> Click on "Edit my LIR details", under "Subscribed Mailing Lists". From >> here, you can add or remove addresses. > > -- > This transmission is intended solely for the addressee(s) shown above. It > may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise > protected from disclosure. Any review, dissemination or use of this > transmission or its contents by persons other than the intended > addressee(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission > in error, please notify this office immediately and e-mail the original at > the sender's address above by replying to this message and including the > text of the transmission received. > -- *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/d85fd843/attachment.html>
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