[members-discuss] Database Abuse
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Tim Armstrong
t.armstrong at nerdalize.com
Thu Sep 7 10:17:41 CEST 2017
Or if your details are in the list and / or you are a technical contact attached to an LIR then you can see everything. Only non-technical / non-LIR people can't access it. Perhaps use passing the RIPE DB Training course as a requirement for access. On 7 Sep 2017 10:06 am, "Vegard Svanberg" <vegard at monsternett.no> wrote: > * Tim Armstrong <t.armstrong at nerdalize.com> [2017-09-05 10:36]: > > > 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. > > I understand the problem (and get those pitches myself nearly daily). I > have no alternative, simple solutions. I also haven't thought this > through in detail. :-) However, and despite all that: I'd oppose the > idea of hiding/obfuscating emails and centralising/limiting feedback > loops to the NCC website. I'm concerned about the operational > consequences of limiting the opportunity to collect emails and build and > maintain lists of contact points (potentially) important for operations. > > And if we remove just emails, we'd probably have to do the same with > phone numbers. They're calling from time to time as well. > > Again, I haven't thought this through, but it's the knee-jerk response > anyway. Perhaps naming, shaming and blacklisting the offenders might be > a better way to go. Perhaps verified members could get regular database > dumps (including contact info) from other sources, or authenticate > against the db to get the whole lot. I don't know. I'm not sure the > problem is big enough to warrant any major changes. > > -- > -o) Vegard Svanberg, MD - Monsternett (www.monsternett.no) > /\\ Violgata 3A, N-1776 HALDEN, NORWAY > _\_v Phone: (+47) 69701802 | Fax: (+47) 69701801 > > > ---- > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/members-discuss/attachments/20170907/6b5e390c/attachment.html>
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