In message <36402B0F.F64BD43C@wisper.net>, Leigh Porter writes:
Stephan Hermann wrote:
1. No Public Access to the Database I think, we have all (and our customers) problems (with email spam, and the normal snail mail spam. Many of the addresses are only in the RIPE DB.
The problem here is that RIPE is a very usefull resource for the whole Internet
community. Personally I have not had much of a problem with spam sent to email addresses on the database so I do not know how much of a problem this is.
I think a far better long term strategy would be to sue the pants of people who trespass on the database... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal