In message <3C775DA1-20AE-441E-B30E-38243F420D24@blacknight.com>, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> writes
What's any of this got to do with RIPE and this WG?
the issue of mail bombing ... people getting 20K+ emails in their mailbox, each of which is individually quite acceptable is something which the industry has been struggling with for well over a year
Is there a policy proposal or something else forthcoming?
an obvious mitigation is CAPTCHAs on sign-up forms ... so it would be an appropriate Best Practice to document -- but whether RIPE is a suitable forum for such a document (or whether there is somewhere which is far more focused on hosting providers) I could not say. -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755