COLT Telecom and the RIPE DB copyright

Can you forward me the messages directly and I'll ensure
that whoever did this +never+ does anything so stupid every
again. My sincerest apologies on behalf of COLT.

Regards,
Neil.
--
Neil J. McRae - COLT 
neil at COLT.NET 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lir-wg at ripe.net [mailto:owner-lir-wg at ripe.net]On Behalf Of
> Alexander Bochmann
> Sent: 10 June 2002 14:18
> To: lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: COLT Telecom and the RIPE DB copyright
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> today we received two mailings from COLT Telekom, 
> addressed to 
> 
> "2i Distribution & Solution, Offenburg" and
> "2i Distribution & Solution, Loerrach und Waldshut"
> 
> We changed our company name about 4 years ago, and 
> these two strings do only appear in the RIPE database 
> for two old networks we previously used as XLINK PoP.
> 
> I have heard from others (and from some of our customers) 
> that they got the same mailing, also destined to addresses 
> that have obviously been retrieved from the RIPE DB (the 
> content of the mailing is targeted to KPNQwest Germany 
> customers who are urged to change to COLT). 
> 
> I think the RIPE DB copyright is quite clear on 
> the use of it's data for advertizing purposes. Yet I 
> never heard of an occasion where RIPE actively enforced 
> the copyright.
> 
> Nevertheless, this seems to be a case of a quite wide 
> spread abuse - anybode else here who recieved this or a 
> similar mailing from COLT and would like to see RIPE 
> take action?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> A. Bochmann
> 
>