RE: verio mining the opensrs whois database

[Derek J. Balling]

At 5:45 PM -0400 7/25/00, Jeff Dafoe wrote:
>...which seems like it would kind of put it in a ethical (as much
>as the word can apply to business) grey area.

Certainly puts it in the "Verio can bite me" area. ;-)

It might be interesting to simply create a list of companies of 
"questionable internet-friendly ethics", listing "big"[1] companies 
that harvest data from whois, etc. etc., and simply allowing people 
to choose or not choose to do business with them as they see fit.

D

[1] For whatever definition of "big" is deemed appropriate.