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Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:57:47 -0400
On 8/22/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> 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? Do you have any suggestions to address that problem?
Why not take out the programmatic side of whois and make it something only humans have access to? Have a screenshot of their email address, and a CAPTCHA to get to it. When was the last time you needed 50,000 registrar's information immediately anyways?
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.
Buying a P.O box means more money, which is not usually a good solution, or even a possible one for some. -JP<realizing he just said we should take programmatic functionality away from a service on a tech mailing list; ducks and runs> _______________________________________________ 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.
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- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again, (continued)
- 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 Florian Weimer (Aug 28)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 28)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Jim Murray (Aug 22)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Paul Ferguson (Aug 22)
- 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 Larry Seltzer (Aug 22)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Paul Ferguson (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 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)
- RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Larry Seltzer (Aug 24)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again Brian Loe (Aug 24)
- Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again der Mouse (Aug 22)