about ripe.db on ftp.ripe.net

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:09 +0000, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2004, at 08:57, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
> > If you want to see the amount of 'same persons' you
> > can also compare the handles themselves...
> 
> To some extent.  A number of individuals have multiple handles.
> Possible reasons include:
> 	- no housekeeping after someone moved to a new job,
> 	- automatic introduction of new handles during bulk operations.

In that case you should also assume that the handle itself contains
wrong information, thus that it is useless either way ;)

Especially now with the free creation of maintainers a lot more junk can
and will likely be stored in the db and as it is maintained the junk
will stay there too until the periodic email check is run again...

Greets,
 Jeroen

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