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RE: 'Old wine in new bottles.'


From: Mathew Butler <mbutler () tonbu com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:44:04 -0800

This would be such a good idea, if someone HADN'T SENT A "Dear Friend, this
is not an illegal scam to make money!!!" message to my post office box.
Sheesh.

-Mat Butler

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodney Joffe [mailto:rjoffe () centergate com]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:48 PM
To: rdobbins () netmore net; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.'





Roland Dobbins wrote:

I'm sure most've you have already seen this - but if not, be advised
that Network Solutions are now more aggressively marketing the contents
of WHOIS to spammers, etc.:

http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB982282009562632162.html

To be more accurate:

They are aggressively marketing *some* of the contents of WHOIS to
Postal Mail marketers. e-mail addresses are *not* provided. Spam is
UBE/UCE sent to e-mail addresses (says Paul Vixie, so it must be true
:-))

-- 
Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
http://www.centergate.com
"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)

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