All good points, all well put. We'll have something shortly on this, in the interim I ask that you be patient..
FWIW, all the domains are now being enabled with this feature - piecemeal, should occur over the next couple of hours as to not interfere with system stability. Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, ST wrote: > Good point Derek! How can any fields be required if you can opt out of > all of them? > > As far as putting invalid contact info, it doesn't do much to instill > customer confidence when they try, unsuccessfully, to contact you. > > I absolutely don't want our phone number included, but I don't mind the > e-mail address. However, I'd rather have neither, and just have the > company name, a short message/description, and the URL. If someone has > a question, they should at least go to our site first to see if the info > is there, and then contact us through our support center, like the rest > of our customers. > > If the e-mail is included, we'll get a lot more spam. I'm sure some > people just parse any e-mail address they find in the whois records, > regardless of which contact it is. > > ST > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek J. Balling > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Reseller Whois information > > > Why is phone a required field? > > I'm more than happy to give people an e-mail address to use to > contact me (as an RSP), but since the average "customer" for me is > "Friends and Family", I don't see any real value in putting a phone > number there. > > If the entire "Reseller information" bit is optional anyway, there's > no reason to have required fields at all (Except maybe the business > name, since it'd be pointless without it). > > If I have to choose between "provide too much info" and "provide no > info", I'm going to choose none, and that's not the most useful way > to use the system. > > Make phone and e-mail optional (or, alternatively, say that "to be > useful", either phone _OR_ email _OR_ URL must be listed) > > D > > -- > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | > | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | > | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | > | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ > >
