Hank complained that he did not receive the announcement mail. This does
not necessarily mean that "the people in the RIPE NCC made some mistakes".
> Mistakes happen, but in order to fix them we need to understand
> exactly what it was that did happen and why it happened that way.
I agree with this part...
> The notices to the RIPE announcement list are irrelevant in this
> case.
To the contrary. Mail gets lost due to SPAM filtering or other reasons
all day. Having Message-IDs enables people to figure out whether their
mailserver has indeed seen the e-mail (and delivered it somewhere or
dropped it), or not.