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Tim Armstrong
t.armstrong at nerdalize.com
Tue Sep 5 10:52:10 CEST 2017
I agree entirely. Yes the list of sales contact ones are quite funny. On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Catalin Dominte < catalin.dominte at paragon.net.uk> wrote: > If RIPE decide to use forms (mainly for abuse reporting), that would be > great. Actual email addresses for peering purposes can be gleaned from > PeeringDB if one has an account there. > > My recent favourite email I get on the ripe addresses is if I am > interested in a list of brand new contacts for C level management from > various industries. Reported them all as spam, but they never stop. > > *Catalin Dominte* > Network Manager | Paragon Internet Group > *Office: +44 (0)1628 200 219 <+44%201628%20200219>* > > The above information is confidential to the addressee and may be > privileged. Unauthorised access and use is prohibited. Internet > communications are not secure and therefore this company does not accept > legal responsibility for the contents of this message. If you are not the > intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action > taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be > unlawful. Paragon Internet Group Ltd is registered in England and Wales, > Company No.07573953 > > On 5 September 2017 at 09:40:56, Telecoms (telco at intrinsec.com) wrote: > > There is a new comment in the ticket submitted by Tim Armstrong to Cloud > Temple - Cloud Operations > > Comment added by : Tim Armstrong > > Comment Content: > 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 >> >> > > > -- > > > *Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations > +31 6 175 444 72 > > > > 6372:154148 > ---- > 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. > > > ---- > 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. > -- *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/c9a934f8/attachment.html>
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