If we can find more evidence of this, I would like to take action. Any more sightings before we ask in a broader forum? Daniel ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 07:28:25 IST From: Hank Nussbacher <HANK@VM.TAU.AC.IL> To: ncc@ripe.net Subject: Possible copyright violation I seem to remember the RIPE database is copyright and users are not to make commercial use of it. Today I got a 7 page fax from PACT conferences in relation ot Net User - the first major exhibition dedicated to the Internet in France (from Herve Thevenet). PACT is in partnership with Eunet, Informatiques Magazine, Skyworld, Apple and World Channel Technologies. They list their e-mail contact as ht11@calvanet.calvacom.fr. The only place they could have extracted my fax number is from the RIPE database - and my interest in Israel to such a conference is minimal. Is this the start of junkfax based on your database? I think the ripe list should be polled to see if others have received such a fax and if so legal options should be persued if you don't want everyone ripping off your DB. Hank ------- End of Forwarded Message