Interesting point. I agree that Icann should STOP the selling of bulk lists thru it's registrars. How Icann justifies this is beyond me.
It's rediculous and basically promotes spamming. All you need is one copy to get dup'd, and then it spreads like a virus. Swerve > From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:28:57 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > 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 | > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
