On 7. May 2020, at 08:57, Clement Cavadore <ccavadore@vedege.net> wrote:

Fellow members,

I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ?

Is there an abuse contact for such a behaviour ?

Yes, a lot of people were spammed by Elad Cohen on their operational mail contacts. And on every RIPE member contact information there is this clear footer: Apart from agreed Internet operational purposes, no part of this information may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, recorded or otherwise), without prior permission of the RIPE NCC. Any use of this information to target advertising, or similar activities, is explicitly forbidden and may be prosecuted. The RIPE NCC requests notification of any such activities or suspicions thereof. So no, this is very much not correct but also no surprise after his behaviour here. I contacted the RIPE NCC about this newest abuse of his. I think he should be nowhere near any position at the RIPE NCC or this community and hope people vote accordingly. Best Regards Sebastian

Clement My understanding is that abusing the database like that would be a terms of use violation and that you should report it to RIPE directly. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com https://blacknight.blog / http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park, Sleaty Road, Graiguecullen, Carlow, R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 On 07/05/2020, 16:09, "members-discuss on behalf of Clement Cavadore" <members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net on behalf of ccavadore@vedege.net> wrote: Fellow members, I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ? Is there an abuse contact for such a behaviour ? Thanks ! -- Clément Cavadore _______________________________________________ members-discuss mailing list members-discuss@ripe.net https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/michele%40blacknight....

Hi,

I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ?

Is there an abuse contact for such a behaviour ?

It is a violation of policies/use-policy/etc. You can notify the NCC through https://www.ripe.net/contact-form Cheers, Sander

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:57:28AM +0200, Clement Cavadore wrote:

I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ?

I also got this email (have a guess whom it was from…). I believe this kind of mass-mailing is in direct violation of article 4 - section 4 of RIPE DB terms and conditions (https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/documentation/terms). -- Benjamin Collet

Hello, I'd like to ask the same question, please. Any answer come up yet? Also been receiving (incompetently translated) e-mailed ridiculousness in spam form, from a Board candidate. Thanks & best regards ________________________________ From: members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Clement Cavadore <ccavadore@vedege.net> Sent: 07 May 2020 08:57:28 To: members-discuss@ripe.net Subject: [members-discuss] Mass emailing towards LIRs contacts, from a Board candidate Fellow members, I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ? Is there an abuse contact for such a behaviour ? Thanks ! -- Clément Cavadore _______________________________________________ members-discuss mailing list members-discuss@ripe.net https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/viethen%40itc.rwth-aa...

I can confirm this issue. Managing multiple LIRs I have received the candidacy promotion of EC via e-mail on all LIR contact e-mail addresses two times each. -Florian Fuessl

Am 07.05.2020 um 08:57 schrieb Clement Cavadore <ccavadore@vedege.net>:

Fellow members,

I have received multiple times (to many of the LIRs I manage contact emails), this night, an e-mail coming from a RIPE NCC Board candidate, who promotes his candidacy. Be his candidacy admissible and decent or not, is not the point. But, is that kind of mass-mailing correct ?

Is there an abuse contact for such a behaviour ?

Thanks !

-- Clément Cavadore

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