But that *forces* me to go to someone higher up the food chain, even when it's not specifically desired by the domain owner. That hassle turns a casual communication into a superhuman effort, raising the bar so high that, for instance, I'm unlikely to send the "are you aware one of your users is spamming?" mail before just putting a block in place...
How so? The Internet is about network interoperation, not host interoperation. I don't much care about contacting host operators via domain records, I want to get in touch with network operators via IP address records because at the end of the day, they are the ones that can really do something about the problem. Using domain name whois to fight spam is useless.
-- Regards,
-rwr
"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
