At 3:57 PM -0400 6/12/02, Swerve wrote: >Do you have any suggestions of how to protect email addresses from being >harvested from the whois by spammers and pseudo opt-in companies?
Rate-limiting the WHOIS servers works really well. The reason your address is "harvested" from the WHOIS database has very little, I suspect, to do with folks actually combing the whois output, and have everything to do with the bulk-availability requirements of the WHOIS data that are mandated by the powers-that-be at ICANN. Implementing, on a whois server, a sensible rate-limiting structure, can thwart those unfortunate ones who are crazy enough to query the database, one at a time. If you want your WHOIS record data to not end up in spammers' hands, you need to convince ICANN to get rid of the ability of a spamhaus to pony up to the table with coin and demand a copy of the thing in full. 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 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
