Changes in the "changed" field

hello, world\n

John Martin wrote:
# Joao,
# 
# At 10:59 am +0200 25/6/98, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
# >After deliberations in the db-wg mailing list, the RIPE NCC suggests the
# >implementation of the following changes:
# 
# I think the changes sound fine but I have been using a widely-used USENET
# convention for making my email address easily readable by a human but not
# so easy for a machine (since most machine-processing of bulk lists of email
# addresses is, I understand, case-insensitive). E.g.
# 
# >Update OK: [person] JM1-RIPE (John Martin)
# >
# >person:      John Martin
# >address:     TERENA Secretariat
# >address:     Singel 468
# >address:     NL-1017 AW Amsterdam
# >address:     The Netherlands
# >phone:       +31 20 530 4488
# >fax-no:      +31 20 530 4499
# >e-mail:      martin at NOSPAMterena.nl
# >nic-hdl:     JM1-RIPE
# >remarks:     This object is no longer maintained by hostmaster at cwi.nl
# >remarks:     Remove the "NOSPAM" from the email addresses to contact owner
# >changed:     hostmaster at cwi.nl 940816
# >changed:     ripe-dbm at ripe.net 950809
# >changed:     martin at NOSPAMterena.nl 980624
# >source:      RIPE
# 
# ...which I admit, is not perfect, but perhaps better than nothing - right?
# (And it works quite well for my USENET postings... so far). I dont always
# use "NOSPAM" but I try to make it obvious.
# 
# And in the case of the "changed:" fields, the people who _should_ be
# interested _should_ know what to do ;->
 
John, you also have NOSPAM in your e-mail: field. If I'd see this in one
of DFNs customer's person objects, I'd really get angry. I'm trying to
contact our >1000 admin-cs and tech-cs on a regular basis, to see whether
they're still alive and kicking. This happens automatically by a script.
Now if I'd see martin at NOSPAMterena.nl in there -- I'd dump you right away.

Sorry, but I don't regard anti spam measurements as a justification for
littering the RIPE DB (which *already* has a lot of bogus information)
with dead email addresses. I *do* want to automate as much as I can.
Having to manually frob email addresses is absolutely not acceptable.

Just to put the spam discussion on the right track (IMHO :-),
yes I do get 1 to 5 spams per day, what the heck, I could not care
less -- I have a delete button.

Let the flame fest begin.

Regards,

	Jens Schweikhardt
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