[members-discuss] Database Abuse

Hello,

 

The “delete” key works well for me.

 

From: members-discuss [mailto:members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Tim Armstrong
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 10:36 AM
To: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: [members-discuss] Database Abuse

 

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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