Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

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>
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