Re: Massive changed in the Ripe Database..

• To: Leigh Porter < >
• From: Poul-Henning Kamp < >
• Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:50:53 +0100
• Cc: Stephan Hermann < >

In message <36402B0F.F64BD43C@localhost>, Leigh Porter writes:
>Stephan Hermann wrote:
>
>>         1. No Public Access to the Database
>>            I think, we have all (and our customers) problems
>>            (with email spam, and the
>>            normal snail mail spam. Many of the addresses are only
>>            in the RIPE DB.
>
>The problem here is that RIPE is a very usefull resource for the whole Internet
>
>community.  Personally I have not had much of a problem with spam sent to
>email addresses on the database so I do not know how much of a problem this
>is.

I think a far better long term strategy would be to sue the pants of 
people who trespass on the database...

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