Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2025, 05:19:40 UTC+00:00:01 schrieb Sergey Myasoedov via members-discuss:
Aleksi,
I understand that any action will cause expenses. But the same database e-mails are used by spammers and by the RIPE NCC, and spammer e-mails will cause expenses for NCC members.
As a Email ISP byself i just wonder why so many (at least business) email users try to hide their technical / business emails from the public. From my prospective, email addresses are out to be findable to anyone potentially want to contact them. Our abuse / hostmaster / contact addresses are out now since ~30 years and so listed in many spammer databases and the amout of spam which is not handable per our spam blocking (we have no spam folders which would need additional user awareness again...) filters is relatively low (up to a hand full a day for 30-40 of our addresses). It should be the work of your email isp to held any real spam to your inbox as low as possible (without compromising your expected communication).. Most spammers today do not rely on public accessible data sources - they use compromised email clients and the archived emails on it to gain fresh address lists including "known" communication partners etc. which are much more of value to them then just some addresses. SO even if you try to "hide" your addresses -. it is just a question of time when they will be grabbed by the smappers industry. hth cheers, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet https://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---