Or if your details are in the list and / or you are a technical contact attached to an LIR then you can see everything. Only non-technical / non-LIR people can't access it. Perhaps use passing the RIPE DB Training course as a requirement for access. On 7 Sep 2017 10:06 am, "Vegard Svanberg" <vegard@monsternett.no> wrote:
* Tim Armstrong <t.armstrong@nerdalize.com> [2017-09-05 10:36]:
I hate to bring this subject up again, but is there really nothing structural we can do about this? At a minimum we could occlude e-mail addresses from the public DB, instead having public complaint submitted via a webform on the NCC website, requiring the uninitiated to realise this is an abuse / complaint contact, not a sales opportunity.
I understand the problem (and get those pitches myself nearly daily). I have no alternative, simple solutions. I also haven't thought this through in detail. :-) However, and despite all that: I'd oppose the idea of hiding/obfuscating emails and centralising/limiting feedback loops to the NCC website. I'm concerned about the operational consequences of limiting the opportunity to collect emails and build and maintain lists of contact points (potentially) important for operations.
And if we remove just emails, we'd probably have to do the same with phone numbers. They're calling from time to time as well.
Again, I haven't thought this through, but it's the knee-jerk response anyway. Perhaps naming, shaming and blacklisting the offenders might be a better way to go. Perhaps verified members could get regular database dumps (including contact info) from other sources, or authenticate against the db to get the whole lot. I don't know. I'm not sure the problem is big enough to warrant any major changes.
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