"changed" field should be deleted
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:12:32 +0200
Dear folks,
Nowadays I can see a new style of anti-spam fight.
If the victim gets some junk mail,
(s)he retrieves all database objects (including *rt) relative to
ALL hosts, domains, and IP addresses that can be found in the mail header,
and s(he) send complaining mails to ALL the fifty e-mail addresses
found in the database objects (including the *ch field). :-(
So these uneducated lamers multiply the amount of spam and harras
a dozen of peoples who are not responsible for the original junk mail
and the spam relays.
The lamers cannot diffrentiate the "responsible persons" and those
who maintain the database records itselves.
My first radical suggestion is:
Let's delete the *ch field from the database objects.
However I know that there should be some info about the
history of records.
a few raw ideas:
- modified database software that hides the *ch field. *ch's could
be retrieved with some extra efforts only
- some coded ID instead of e-mail address. Ordinary peoples couldn't
decode it but authorized ripe-ops could. (E.g. via WWW or e-mail)
This info shouldn't be public.
What is your opinion?
(Personally I've changed my jobs years ago but my e-mail address
can be found in hundreds of *ch fields. So I hate the
anti-spam spam as well than the spam itself.)
Regards
Gabor
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