Dear Hank, dear Colleagues, Yes, we are going to setup the db-help majordomo mailing list. This will happen next week. Just thinking how to keep the contents of it really helpful. We will keep you informed. Thanks, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC Hank Hampel wrote:

Hi there!

I just want to ask if there is going to be a db-help mailinglist to reduce the unnecessary traffic to hostmaster@ripe.net and to shorten the wait queue.

I think this mailinglist would really be helpfull - at least if it's existence will be propagated at a prominent place (i.e. the RIPE website).

Because nowadays many people tend not to actually read documentation and instead use the "easy" way of just asking questions to any mailaddress that seems suitable (and even to those not so suitable). Even so I think a FAQ and a step-by-step documentation of the "10 most frequent actions with the RIPE DB" is really a good idea I think we should also create this mailinglist - and if it's just for the sake of pointing people to the right documents. ;)

So I propose, to get things going, to have something like a strawpoll/show of hands who is willing to participate on such a mailinglist.

Count this mail as the first hand up. ;)

Sincerely yours, Hank