RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

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

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