Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

[Mike Reno <mreno () earthlink net>]

It seems to be the same email address each time.
Something along the lines of nosuchemail () worldnic com
I would suspect it is read by someone on their staff unless it aliases over
to /dev/null.
Try going thru the process of registering a domain on the worldnic.com site
and you will see that both the email address and fax number are optional.

-=Mike Reno=-


At 06:24 PM 11/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:16:45AM -0800, Mike Reno wrote:
> > WorldNIC will setup a domain without an email address using a bogus
> > worldnic.com email address if the owner of the domain wishes to keep his
> > email address private.  This is a practice all registrars should consider.
> > And, since WorldNIC is another face of NSI, it would seem that this
> > practice is well within their acceptable guidelines.
>
> I'll tell you something.
>
> If it's NetSol's policy to make bogus Worldnic.com addresses available for
> domain registration, and as a result I can't complain to the WHOIS contacts
> because of an incident of net-abuse, I am going to be on the phone to NetSol
> very quickly, and I am going to complain loudly and repeatedly.
>
> If the WorldNIC addresses forward somewhere, that's ok.
>
> > WorldNIC is utilizing the database for marketing purposes which is
> > something the old guard at NSI was totally against any ISP doing and in
> > fact insisted on an agreement to those terms before giving us ftp passwords
> > to pull down the .zone files.  
>
> Of course. 
>
> -- 
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