[members-discuss] Database Abuse

Hi all,

Every so often this issue crops up it's ugly head again, RIPE DB abuse is a
real problem.
Yet again we are receiving unsolicited sales pitches via an e-mail address
we only use for the contact details in our RIPE DB entries.

We've all seen it; people offering to buy IPv4 blocks, people offering to
sell IPv4 blocks, DDoS filtering, etc. It's a plague of poorly constructed
pitches for services none of us want to waste time reading about. If we
want such products, we all know how find them, and yet the e-mails don't
stop coming.

I am not one for publicly shaming other members of the community, but if it
doesn't stop, I don't see how I have a choice. They need to learn that
database abuse leads to boycott.
The database is an operations tool for de-bugging and reporting issues &
abuse; not a sales team's list of "potential leads".

I hate to bring this subject up again, but is there really nothing
structural we can do about this?
At a minimum we could occlude e-mail addresses from the public DB, instead
having public complaint submitted via a webform on the NCC website,
requiring the uninitiated to realise this is an abuse / complaint contact,
not a sales opportunity.


Thanks,
Tim.

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*Tim Armstrong*Dark Lord of Network Operations
+31 6 175 444 72 <+31617544472>
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