> The concern that that WHOIS data is being used by spammers is > probably only slightly true, and even it is, it's really not that big > of a concern.
As someone who holds a domain with non-concealed WHOIS data, using email addresses that appear (as far as I know) nowhere else, I feel fairly confident in saying that WHOIS scraping is at most a trivial contribution to spammer lists. I can't recall the last time I saw a spam aimed at one of my domain registration contact addresses. I did a mechanical search of my blocked mail from 2006-11-24 (this choice of date being related to the way I file the stuff) to present and found exactly one such message. I searched my SMTP server's logs for the same period and got two hits, one being the aforementioned message and the other being a real contact from my ccTLD, not spam at all. Of course, I can only guess at how much spam is aimed at one of those addresses but is defeated before RCPT time. But this does strike me as evidence that anyone still doing WHOIS scraping is using old or otherwise ineffective ratware...or perhaps just isn't scraping the .ca ccTLD records. :-) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
