Töma Gavrichenkov wrote on 07/05/2020 10:03:
What does GDPR have to say about this?
You mean the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations / PECR. Spamming is prohibited under article 13. National transcriptions of this legislation have implemented this as a civil offence in some EU countries and a criminal offence in others. Note that this mainly applies to personal accounts, not role accounts. In any event, spamming using contact information harvested from the RIPE database is a violation of the terms of use of the RIPE Database:
https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/terms
specifically:
Users may not use the RIPE Database or the data contained therein for advertising, direct marketing, marketing research or similar purposes.
Nick