RE: COLT Telecom and the RIPE DB copyright
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:33:08 +0100
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.
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Neil J. McRae - COLT
neil@localhost
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lir-wg@localhost [
Behalf Of
> Alexander Bochmann
> Sent: 10 June 2002 14:18
> 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
>
>
