[address-policy-wg] RIPE DB: disclosure of commertial information

And,

not much of this has to do with address-policy anymore, somehow i feel the 
term spam coming up in my mind (?)

rgds,

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On Fri, 20 May 2005, [UTF-8] Dennis Lundström wrote:

> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:57:01 +0200
> From: "[UTF-8] Dennis Lundström" <dennis at gippnet.com>
> To: Max Tulyev <president at ukraine.su>
> Cc: address-policy-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] RIPE DB: disclosure of commertial information
> 
> Public records are wonderful, as they gives us ordinary people the 
> possibility to check up on the folks we elect into government :-)
> But offcourse these could be missused. More importantly you guys should pass 
> some legislation on harvesting public records, for marketing material. I'm no 
> way a legal expert, but that seems more resonable.
>
> We got something simmular in Sweden called offentlighetsprincipen.
> Basicly all material passing a government agency are put in the public 
> records.
> We could even look up if someone have been convicted of a fellony, and read 
> court documents.
> And offcourse look up annual income, and get pictures of the person, if 
> he/she applied for a passport.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --Dennis Lundström
>  GippNET AB, Stockholm Sweden
>
> Max Tulyev wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> New cup of gas on that fire ;)
>> 
>> There is new database released: all bank transactions in Russia, IV quarter 
>> of 2004 (this is update to exist database from April 2003). It costs only 
>> $100 (source: 
>> http://top.rbc.ru/index.shtml?/news/policy/2005/05/20/20100238_bod.shtml). 
>> You can use it with RIPE DB and even see how much certain client pays for 
>> connection...
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, 12 May 2005 17:11:21 +0400
>>> 
>>> Max Tulyev <president at ukraine.su> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If my satisfied client will receive a tons of offers from other peoples
>>>> just because of I show him in open database - it is really good???
>>>> 
>>>> Is it really good for me to look up the database and send that offers to
>>>> others?
>>>> 
>>> I don't think that it's good for you to be a spammer :))
>>> But, if you wish to send UCE to "target auditory", you can also find this
>>> "target auditory" from many over sources then RIPE DB.:) If your customer
>>> exists in RIPE DB, or if it has meaningfull PTR records on used
>>> addresses,it isn't gives someone advantage in stealing this customer from
>>> you.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>