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Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] Contacts

  • To: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" < >
  • From: Nick Hilliard < >
  • Date: 29 Jan 2003 12:44:29 +0000
  • Cc: Mally Mclane < >
    "anti-spam-wg@localhost" < >
> Such people would have their IP address space withdrawn until they
> can behave like responsible adults.

This is a pretty good example of where "worse is better" (qv
http://naggum.no/worse-is-better.html for how it applies to programming
languages, but the principle is the same).

Mandating your suggestion would surely create a 100% correct database. 
But it would piss off all RIPE members to the extent that the
co-operative nature upon which RIPE is based would be irrevocably
destroyed.  And like it or lump it, RIPE depends completely on
co-operation.

Worse is better.

Nick
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