I wouldn't worry about it. I think anybody who does that will undo it pretty soon all by them selves. (see last line of my .sig for more context :-) Poul-Henning In message <009FAF64.DFFEC796.9@cc.univie.ac.at>, "Christian Panigl, ACOnet/VIX /UniVie" writes:

Hmmm, reasonable diligence or epidemic paranoia ?

Just got this one forwarded, thought it might be worth letting you know ...

Cheers CP

================================ X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Message-ID: <6uu6ets5102thcbdrigof2l7urtmd2gmjl@4ax.com> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:48:13 -0400 From: Daniel Norton <danorton@SUESPAMMERS.ORG> To: SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Reply-To: Daniel Norton <danorton@SUESPAMMERS.ORG> Sender: Spam Prevention Discussion List <SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM> Organization: . Subject: BLOCK: RIPE

RIPE's database is down for an indeterminate period of time. Since it might be impossible to determine an abuse contact address without the RIPE database, you might wish to consider blocking all RIPE traffic until they get things back in order. Here are the RIPE IP address ranges:

24.132/14 62/8 139.20/14 139.24/14 139.28/15 141.0/10 141.64/12 141.80/14 141.84/15 145.224/12 145.240/13 145.248/14 145.252/15 145.254/16 149.202/15 149.204/16 149.206/15 149.208/12 149.224/12 149.240/13 149.248/14 150.254/16 151.13/16 151.14/15 151.16/12 151.32/11 151.64/12 151.80/15 151.3/16 151.4/15 151.82/16 151.91/16 151.92/15 151.95/16 160.216/14 160.220/16 160.44/14 160.48/12 163.156/14 163.160/12 164.0/11 164.32/13 164.40/16 164.128/12 171.16/12 171.32/15 192.106.196/23 192.162/16 192.164/14 192.71/16 193/8 194/8 195/8 198.17.117/24 212/8 213/8 217/8

-- Daniel Norton

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