On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:39:00AM -0700, 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.
I think that what we have here is a battle of definitions. Some people consider privacy to be their assumed "right" to personal security through obscurity. Others simply want to be left alone. Personally, I have a much larger privacy issue with the various non-Internet related things I do gradually coming online and posting participant lists. I regularly have to inform one non-profit organization on whose executive I serve that they absolutely do not have my permission to post my home telephone number on the executive contact list on their web site. Every AGM, it somehow gets back on, not because they're evil, but simply because they don't grasp the fact that if one of my customers knows how to use Google, their executive list lets the customer call me at home. Let's call a spade a trowel, and be clear on what we mean. *I* don't care if my contact information is listed via WHOIS, as long as I have control over that contact information. (I already use a P.O. Box.) *My* priority is to reduce spam. I don't do that by arguing about what contact information is available by WHOIS, because my contact information is already in a thousand places in Google. So I'll focus my spam prevention efforts on things more directly related to spam. p -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
