hi ripe folks,<div><br></div><div>I work on spam filter and we notice very gross abuse of very large internet ranges by blatant spammers posing as ISPs - all of which are allocated by ripe. I totally understand that ripe is not to deal with the spam but it will be totally unjust to say they will allocate a /13 to a spammer and have spammer wreak havoc or do what ever crap he wants to do. I posted a couple of messages to ripe and all I get is the same routine message saying they wont police this. But, why are they giving the address ranges of such huge magnitude to criminals if they cannot police it ? It will be a great disservice if this continues to happen. We always notice the spammer is always from same place or address</div>

<div><br></div><div>We already blocked a bunch of /13s allocated by ripe to spammers and at some point may have to block even wider range since all we see from every ip in that range is spam or phishing or no activity. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Always, the whois refers to a guy with address in sector 3, bucharest, romania. </div><div><br></div><div>I know ipv4 addresses are running out but even ipv6 will run out if we do same thing like allocating like crazy very large netblock ranges to spammers.</div>

<div>Can ripe do anything here or of any help here other than just saying they just give away ip addresses ranges to ISPs (which inturn some are criminals) but do not police ?</div><div> </div><div>The thing that changes is the name of the person - either berar george or somethign else etc.,. </div>

<div>for instance today the spammer is using range  : </div><div><br></div><div><div>vijaye@veranti:~$ whois 193.254.53.34 </div><div>% This is the RIPE Database query service.</div><div>% The objects are in RPSL format.</div>

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<br></div><div>% Note: this output has been filtered.</div><div>%       To receive output for a database update, use the &quot;-B&quot; flag.</div><div><br></div><div>% Information related to &#39;193.254.48.0 - 193.254.63.255&#39;</div>

<div><br></div><div>inetnum:         193.254.48.0 - 193.254.63.255</div><div>netname:         COMTEL-SUPERNET</div><div>descr:           COMTEL Supernet srl</div><div>descr:           COMTEL dedicated customers</div><div>

country:         RO</div><div>tech-c:          GDG620-RIPE</div><div>admin-c:         GDG620-RIPE</div><div>admin-c:         CT19-RIPE</div><div>tech-c:          CT19-RIPE</div><div>status:          ASSIGNED PA</div><div>

mnt-by:          COMTEL-MNT</div><div>source:          RIPE # Filtered</div><div><br></div><div>person:          Corneliu Tanasa</div><div>address:         COMTEL TELECOM NETWORK SRL</div><div>address:         18 Decebal Blvd., Sector 3</div>

<div>address:         Bucharest, ROMANIA</div><div>phone:           +40-21-3229390</div><div>fax-no:          +40-21-3229391</div><div>e-mail:          <a href="mailto:ggoran@comtelnetworks.ro">ggoran@comtelnetworks.ro</a></div>

<div>mnt-by:          COMTEL-MNT</div><div>nic-hdl:         CT19-RIPE</div><div>source:          RIPE # Filtered</div></div><div><br></div>