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RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:41:39 +1200
Larry Seltzer wrote:
I'm in favor of accurate data being available in the WHOIS database(s)myself. For everyone who feels this way, does it bother you that this information becomes easy to harvest for e-mail and postal mail spamming and scamming? ...
For everyone who feels as you obviously do, does it bother you that your dumb-as-dirt relatives, colleagues, business partners, etc expose your Email address and other information they ma collected about you to the worlds bot-herders on a regular basis?
... Do you have any suggestions to address that problem?
Do you have any suggestions to address the problem I just outlined? A hint -- your loathing of imposing a skerrick of responisbility on domain "owners" makes fixing lots and lots of those _bigger_ problems soemwhere between "a great deal" and "infinitely" more difficult.
Saying I can buy a P.O. box doesn't impress me and a special e-mail box is an even worse solution: you have to pay attention to the contents because you can lose your domain by blowing off mail in it, but nearly everything in it will be spam.
So scrap that vanity domain -- you're clearly far too effete to run it. The "wrapped up in cottonwool so you don't have to persoanlly worry too much about anything" model didn't really work or you'd still be tooling around on AOL _and_ AOL would still be AOL... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ 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:
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again, (continued)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Larry Seltzer (Aug 22)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Nick FitzGerald (Aug 22)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again David Jones (Aug 23)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Nick FitzGerald (Aug 23)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Don Blumenthal (Aug 24)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 28)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Larry Seltzer (Aug 22)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Nick FitzGerald (Aug 22)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again der Mouse (Aug 22)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Dude VanWinkle (Aug 23)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again der Mouse (Aug 22)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Dude VanWinkle (Aug 23)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Larry Seltzer (Aug 22)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Nick FitzGerald (Aug 22)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Andy Sutton (Aug 23)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Nick FitzGerald (Aug 23)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Andy Sutton (Aug 24)