Whois harvesting is the main reason we put together
http://www.myprivacy.ca
Its in beta, but seems to work.
-mark
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Jonathan Wray wrote:
> Finally getting away from NetSol I hoped there might be a break in the spam
> addressed to my contact role account. No such luck. Now an email address
> I have used only to register domains with OpenSRS has been harvested; in
> the first 30 days no less.
>
> Has anyone else gotten this "modular-web.com" spam from a "Bill
> Frederick"? Its typical dumb sales droid crap, but its sad that some
> people in the trade have yet to catch a clue. Using spam to pitch hosting
> to a hosting company? How intelligent! Next will come the wonderful
> modular-web.com weight loss products, modular-web.com chain letters, and
> the infamous "make 50 million over night with email with modular-web.com!"
> pitches.
>
> Just wanted to rant. Sad to see that we have yet to gain control over (or
> any privacy in) the use of contact information in a registrar's
> database. Its not OpenSRS's fault, but it still sucks.
>
> jonathan
>
>
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mark jeftovic
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http://mark.jeftovic.net
