Quoth Nadav Har'El on Wed, Apr 02, 2003:
> You said your self that the ISP abused ISOC's list, so you can try
> to complain is ISOC. And maybe once and for all these registrars
> will stop forcing you to make all your details public (including email
> address, home address, and phone) just because you want to have a domain
> name...
> 
> And for everybody saying "but these details helps us catch spammers and the
> likes", well, this is far from being true.

These details help people report problems when other ways of
contact are unavailable for some reason (network downtime,
misconfigurations, etc.).  I used RIPE's whois database to get
phone numbers of domain holders whose mail servers were
misconfigured.

> The real abusers can easily provide
> false information, and I've seen false information even on reputable companies'
> assignments.

But if the domain holder is not actively evil, the contact info
helps, doesn't it?  And if it weren't there, whom would you
contact?

Vadik.

-- 
You mean you need drugs to hallucinate?  (K)

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