RIPE.NET Mailing Lists

The RIPE NCC manages several mailing lists that are open to the RIPE NCC membership or the RIPE community.

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RIPE Community Mailing Lists

The RIPE community has several public mailing lists, mostly related to the activities of RIPE Working Groups. The RIPE mailing lists are maintained by the RIPE NCC.

All current working group mailing lists are open for subscription. Postings are accepted only from subscribed members, but the lists may only be used for purposes covered by the charter of each RIPE Working Group. Unsolicited Bulk E-mail ("spam") is never acceptable. The RIPE NCC will, at its own discretion, remove addresses likely to lead to misuse of any list or lists, and may take further action against individuals and service providers involved.

More information about RIPE community mailing lists is available on the RIPE community pages.

RIPE NCC Specific Mailing Lists

Various mailing lists cover topics related to the activities of the RIPE NCC. Some lists are related to the RIPE NCC membership, other lists are dedicated to particular projects.

Regional Mailing Lists

To enable continued discussion on IP networking issues in various parts of the RIPE NCC service region, several regional lists have been set up.

Troubleshooting

Mail not getting through?

The RIPE NCC uses greylisting on its mail servers in order to reduce the amount of spam recieved.

Greylisting works by sending a temporary SMTP error the first time an email is received from an unknown sender. Any legitimate mail servers that receive this error will resend the email successfully. The bulk mailers used by spammers do not usually try to resend e-mail that is returned and so the spam is blocked on the first and only attempt at delivery.

Legitimate emails to the RIPE NCC should not be affected by greylisting. However, if you have any problem sending email, please contact ops@ripe.net.

Not receiving mail from lists?

If an email address subscribed to a RIPE mailing list bounces five messages from the list server, it will automatically be set to "disabled". This means that the disabled email address will not be sent any of the messages posted to the relevant mailing list.

An automatic notification alert will be sent to the email address in question, though a malfunctioning mailbox may not receive this notification.

Anyone affected by this can reenable their subscription by visiting the membership management page.

When you reach the mailman listinfo page, enter your email address in the text input box at the bottom of the page, under the "Unsubscribe and other options" heading.