[members-discuss] New comment - [#6372] Database Abuse

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