I would maintain that anyone who receives solicitations or spam as a result of information gathered from the whois system would vehemently disagree with you.
Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek J. Balling > Sent: June 12, 2002 3:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > > At 2:56 PM -0400 6/12/02, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > >The time pressure really stems from a larger strategy that we are > >working. Whois is essentially broken. It doesn't give registrants the > >privacy they need, > > I'm still not convinced that the registrant - a tenant of a shared > namespace - has any NEED of privacy. There does not yet to seem to be > a demonstrated need for such, thus making this statement as a factual > statement and not just an opinion would be unwarranted. > > 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 | > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
