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) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
