Hello John,
Friday, April 27, 2001, 11:32:42 AM, John Payne wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:28:02AM -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
>>
>> As was send several times over the last month:
>>
>> 1) They find the domain is new by access to the zone files, which is
>> free to anyone.
>>
>> 2) They get the domain contact info from whois, which is free to
>> anyone
> Except for rate limiting whois. This doesn't scale.
Trust me, there are ways around rate limits.
>> 3) The spam is not the result of data selling
> Chickenboners are lazy... its easier to scrape addresses from webpages
> or usenet... or buying addresses.
That's not how you are getting this spam.
>> 4) There is no way of opting out of being in the dns zone files or the
>> whois, short of not registering domain names, which is always an
>> option.
> You could opt-out of being in the data being sold (or opt into being sold).
> E-mail addresses in whois could be opt-in/out. There is little need for
> everyone on the planet to know tech-/admin-/billing-contact addresses.
Email in whois is, and should be, mandatory. But that's not something
we can change here anyway.
Even if you opt-out of the bulk access whois, it won't stop these
messages, since that is not how they are getting the data.
--
Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
