At 6/13/02 11:39 AM, wxWeb.com wrote: >I think that this whole thing is nothing but some people trying to >come up with an answer to the whois spam issue, and using privacy as a >faulty means of arguing it.
Not me, for the record. I'm concerned about name, physical address, and phone number, and I think most registrants are, too. E-mail is a secondary concern. Although I'd ideally like to start with the assumption that everything should be private, I'll agree that public e-mail addresses are far less of a privacy concern than public physical addresses. So there are plenty who view privacy as the issue regardless of spam, both on the provider side (me) and the customer side (when my customers call up in shock because they've just found out their info is available to anyone, they aren't worried about spam -- they're worried abut a lunatic bombing their house because they have a religious Web site, and so forth). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who can do binary arithmetic and those who can't.
