Dear Colleagues,
[Apologies for duplicate mails]
Beginning today, 16 August, the RIPE NCC will implement "e-mail address
masquerading" for messages displayed on the web site in the RIPE and the
RIPE NCC mailing list archives. E-mail masquerading makes it more difficult
for spammers to harvest e-mail addresses from the mailing list archives.
When masquerading is applied, the e-mail address of the sender will be
hidden in the mail archived messages. Those reading archived mail will see
a return e-mail address that appears as "<somebody@localhost>". When
clicking on this e-mail address, the address of the original sender will be
loaded in your mail program, enabling you to send a message to the author.
The RIPE NCC has chosen to implement this security measure as there have
been various complaints from members of the RIPE community that e-mail
addresses were being abused by spammers for Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE).
By implementing this security measure we anticipate there will be a sharp
reduction to address harvesting of archived e-mail addresses.
We will be checking for harvesters who manage to overcome this measure and
will take further steps if necessary.
E-mail masquerading will be applied to all mailing lists found in the
following directories:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mail-archives/http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail-archives/
We appreciate your understanding on this matter.
Regards
Jeroen Bet
RIPE NCC WEBMASTER
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Subject: New Document available: RIPE-256
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New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement
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A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store:
"IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points"
Short content description
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Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are used to exchange Internet traffic
between different Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Many Exchange
Point operators require address space for the peering mesh that is
independent from any of the address space in use by member networks.
Accessing the RIPE document store
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You can access the RIPE documents in HTML format via WWW.
"IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points" is available at
the following URL:
http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-256.html
The RIPE document store is also available via anonymous FTP to
ftp.ripe.net, in the directory ripe/docs.
The URLs for the new documents on the FTP-server are:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-256.ps PostScript version
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-256.txt plain text version
Kind Reagrds,
Jeroen Bet
Webmaster
RIPE NCC
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