>> I'm in favor of accurate data being available in the WHOIS >> database(s) myself. > For everyone who feels this way, does it bother you that this > information becomes easy to harvest for e-mail and postal mail > spamming and scamming?
No. My experience, as someone who's held a domain that way since at least 2000-10-26 (and I think even longer), indicates that this "problem" is so far down in the noise it's not worth even *thinking* about - see the message I sent to the list in this thread just a few minutes ago. Do you have evidence to indicate that my experience in this respect is unusual? > Do you have any suggestions to address that problem? No; I don't usually bother addressing nonexistent problems. Even if it *were* a problem, I still stand by the stance that being contactable is part of the responsibility that needs to come with the authority of holding a domain. I say "needs to come with" rather than "comes with" because, as far as I can tell, currently, the only responsibility that comes with owning a domain these days is paying its registrar. As with any system involving mismatches between responsibility and authority, this has attracted abuses. Such a system is self-correcting; the abuses grow until the mismatch is corrected, the system collapses, or, in minor cases (which today's Internet is not among), an equilibrium is reached. I'd just stand aside and let it self-correct except that I want to have a usable Internet quicker than that. /~\ 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.
