Thursday, June 13, 2002, 4:32:26 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

>> But just as I can walk into the local town clerk's office and get the 
>> name, address, phone-number, of the person who pays the land next 
>> door me, the "right to be anonymous" in this case is NOT the same as 
>> the generic "right to privacy".
>>

> Sorry, Derek, you can pile up as many arguments as you like, but you 
> cannot neglect the fact that there is NO need for you to know a domain 
> owners email address. Full stop. You can contact them by postal mail or 
> phone, if you need to.
> BTW: your above quoted example is way off what's happening with 
> whois-milking, you know that.

Actually no it isn't.

Property ownership records are used massively for marketing lists as
well.  It is one of the leading uses of these records.


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