On 01.09.2025 16:02, Sulev-Madis Silber via ripe-atlas wrote:
it boggles my mind that ripe ncc doesn't run it's own infra and relies on spam company to forward them. i expect more mails end up in actual spam folder due them coming via so called email marketing provider
it also boggles my mind that it should be expected that anyone's mua even loads remote resources. many don't anymore for a long time. spam, viruses and other attacks have removed that nice feature. many allow whitelisted and trusted sources only. that skews this metric a ton
those reports also go to technical people who might use them without pixel being loaded anyway. i don't know, i receive them to their own aliases, they go into their own folders and system makes them read automatically. for stats / future use
and who came to this decision anyway. it feels like whoever it was, he never uses atlas him / herself. at least it very much feels so. what's fun is those things likely are decided by like team on 10 people or so
it's often problem everywhere, eg, bus schedules are often as if made by people who always drive a car. kind of user/decisionmaker disconnect. similar thing seems to happen here
i would expect better things from that 33 year old mature world famous highly knowledged important internet management organization that a réseaux IP européens network coordination centre established in year 1992 is
Sulev-Madis's point of view gets my full sympathy, if it's not even already a "+1". Cheers, -C.