COLT Telecom and the RIPE DB copyright

[Alexander Bochmann <]

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