* Frank Gadegast:
There defny should be a system like this to hide all personal email addresses from all kind of harvesting, simply because its personal data and RIPE NCC has no reason to give it to other people and it needs to be protected much better (at least according to German law).
Surely there are exceptions. Obviously, RIPE NCC should continue to operate mailing lists. Your proposal would prevent RIPE NCC from doing that. Come to think of it, from a privacy point of view, I don't see much of a difference between submitting a mail message to RIPE NCC for publication and distribution over a mailing list, and a person: object for publication and distribution using the RIPE database. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99