Re: Accurate Whois info

[Pflege]

You know, the only question I have is

   Who the heck has time to sit around and dial what appear
   to be perfectly valid phone numbers in WHOIS just to see
   if they actually ring through to the expected party???

Which leads, of course, to the other, more pressing question...

   Who the heck cares?!!?


I do care a lot.
For ex. at Christmas(!) 1997 somebody had sent about 10.000(!) emails
to my domain before I noticed it.
So I had to sit down over Christmas, writing a script for blocking these emails
and had to hire a second programmer to check the code (in 1997 emails script where
less easy to handle than the actual scripts, at least my scripts)

The domain owner had been testing a new mass mailing script and
had an endless loop in it.
Again, the day after Christmas I received another 3000  emeil before I could
change my script. The domain owner had also other domains and did
now a testing with these other domains.

So I was happy to be able to sent a fax at Christmas (his office closed of course)
and that I was able to phone the man the day after Christmas to get it stopped.



Also, at least in Europe, all Internet sites are treated similar to a publication (journal)
and there must be an 'editor' how is responsible for that.
I think this is absolutely necessary, you may think of child porn or even about
less severe cases, f.ex. I will write at my homepage 'Eric Longman is doing bad business'.
You will want to be able to contact me.

Matthias