At 8:12 AM +0200 24/5/03, Fredrik Widell wrote:
A thought occured to me (as I for the xxxx'th time was accused of hacking somebody who has a firewall). The changed-line in every object simply refers to a mail-adress and a timestamp. Whould'nt it be more accurate to have a nic-hdl instead of just a mailadress there? managers of objects move, and mailadresses gets obsolete, and the only thing they are used for is to send abuse-matters, which of course are the wrong recipient in 99.9% of the cases, but if there was a nic-hdl, one could give information via that nic-hdl on how to get in contact with 'good' recipients, or the users would have to actually think and maybe realize that the other names that occur in an answer from ripe-db possibly could be the right recipients for abuse-matters.
I think they are just about useless anyway and anything you put in there some clown (or their program) will use to send you either SPAM or abuse about SPAM. The objects I modify usually have a comment about where to send abuse reports and the changed field has nobody@domain as the address, which nicely hits the bit bucket for those people who can't read/understand. Mark.