Joao, At 10:59 am +0200 25/6/98, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
After deliberations in the db-wg mailing list, the RIPE NCC suggests the implementation of the following changes:
I think the changes sound fine but I have been using a widely-used USENET convention for making my email address easily readable by a human but not so easy for a machine (since most machine-processing of bulk lists of email addresses is, I understand, case-insensitive). E.g.
Update OK: [person] JM1-RIPE (John Martin)
person: John Martin address: TERENA Secretariat address: Singel 468 address: NL-1017 AW Amsterdam address: The Netherlands phone: +31 20 530 4488 fax-no: +31 20 530 4499 e-mail: martin@NOSPAMterena.nl nic-hdl: JM1-RIPE remarks: This object is no longer maintained by hostmaster@cwi.nl remarks: Remove the "NOSPAM" from the email addresses to contact owner changed: hostmaster@cwi.nl 940816 changed: ripe-dbm@ripe.net 950809 changed: martin@NOSPAMterena.nl 980624 source: RIPE
...which I admit, is not perfect, but perhaps better than nothing - right? (And it works quite well for my USENET postings... so far). I dont always use "NOSPAM" but I try to make it obvious. And in the case of the "changed:" fields, the people who _should_ be interested _should_ know what to do ;-> Rgds, John John Martin TERENA, Singel 466-468, NL - 1017 AW Amsterdam phone: +31 20 530 4488 ** fax: +31 20 530 4499 ** http://www.terena.nl/ ** Please note new telephone and fax numbers