Uhmm.š Would you please describe what RIPE can do on this particular issue? We are unable to control all the botnets. The only way to secure your network is to secure the boxes with technical, not administrative way.
The original question was answered and the answered raised another issue. šthis is a discussion list and the point is to have a discussion and different issues often get raised along the way.
As far as I can tell nobody on this list was anointed as the decider over what is abuse and what is not. šFurther, nobody has appointed a worldwide "spanking" authority as far as I know. šSome people think otherwise and they go around (sometimes arbitrarily) disrupting Internet resources because of their own personal beliefs and point of view rather than the needs of the users of the system.