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Re: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 01:34:46 GMT
I don't think this baseless at all -- but unfortunately, it does focus on Tucows. I'll leave it for other list readers to comment on that specifically. So what about (especially) Joker? Or Yahoo! as a registrar? These are examples of registrars that have had _serious_ problems w.r.t. spammers using their services for nefarious (and in many case, illegal) purposes. All I said was that this issue needs to brought to the forefront and iscussed -- because it doesn't appear to be getting any better. The eMail Battles article can eitehr stand, or fall, on its own legs. Cheers, - ferg -- Tim Wilde <twilde () dyndns com> wrote: On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Fergie wrote:
This is nothing new, but more attention to this sort of mess needs to be brought to the forefront & discussed. Some of these registrars are in it simply for the money and care nothing about the "health" of the Internet.
Did they try to contact Tucows? They have a tiny paragraph at the end about the fact that Tucows will yank WHOIS privacy on spammers, but even that they spin as a negative. Tucows are white-hat - a little bit clueless, sometimes, yes, but certainly white-hat - their intentions are in the right place. I imagine if they were presented with clear evidence of spam involving those domains, which shouldn't be hard if the article is true about the volume, they'd yank the WHOIS Privacy in no time flat. Tucows' WHOIS Privacy (and other registrars' similar services) are important, some would say necessary, exactly BECAUSE of the spammers. Yes, spammers will try to use them to hide as well, but it should be a trivial matter to get a truly white-hat registrar to pull away the privacy in the case of spam. And if the registrar isn't white-hat, they're probably not going to do anything about the spammer's domain ANYWAY, privacy service or not. Seems like a factless, baseless, possibly libellous, attack on a well-meaning and generally-responsive registrar, to me. Nothing to be excited about or pointing out as a shining example of anti-spammers sticking it to the man. Tim -- Tim Wilde twilde () dyndns com Systems Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/ -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks Fergie (Jun 06)
- Re: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks Tim Wilde (Jun 06)
- RE: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks StyleWar (Jun 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks Fergie (Jun 06)
- RE: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks Fergie (Jun 06)
- RE: How Tucows Helps A Spammer Cover His Tracks StyleWar (Jun 06)