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.

Greylisting

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 e-mail is received from an unknown sender. Any legitimate mail servers that receive this error will resend the e-mail 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 e-mails to the RIPE NCC should not be affected by greylisting. However, if you have any problem sending e-mail, please contact ops@ripe.net.