As I have promised, I'm not doing this on a regular basis
Or rather, you should not do it again. The RIPE database contains administrative, technical and abuse contacts. By sending non-operational mail soliciting asset transfers to tech and abuse contacts, you are at least taking up people's time. It may or may not be within the letter of the rules, but it is clearly not appreciated. Sending to the administrative contact is maybe a little more defensible, but only a little. The admin contact is mainly for billing and to be able to find out who is ultimately responsible, e.g in case the other contacts are unresponsive. It has never been acceptable to send any sort of unsolicited commercial email (advertising selling *or* buying). Doing this will only encourage people to avoid you in the future. Once may be chalked up to youthful ignorance. But please don't do this again, for your own sake. I guess it's September again... -w -- William Waites Network Engineer HUBS AS60241