Good afternoon, all, On Tue, 4 May 2004, Ring, John C wrote:
> >There IS a report done on many registrar's, take a look here: > >http://www.polarbeach.com/topics/Registrars.htm > > Accepting the premise that this sort of thing is a good idea, it still seems > to me those numbers aren't very useful because they do not factor in the > number of names handed out by each registrar. > > If registrar A has given out one million names with only 1,000 of them > having been advertised in spam, that's only 0.1% of their customers. > > On the other hand, if registrar B has only given out 20,000 names and a mere > 200 of them have been advertised in spam, that's 1% of their customers. > > To me, this would mean that registrar A is ten times more "spam hostile" > then registrar B. Yet the way the numbers would be presented by the above > URL, it would only say that A had 1,000 while B had 200, yielding the > opposite conclusion and, IMO, incorrect conclusion on who is more "spam > hostile." The other piece I find lacking is how the registrars _responded_ to the request. Did the domain get shut down, or is it still running? Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi." - TVmisGuided on Slashdot -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------
