RE: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Larry Seltzer wrote:

> Obviously there are lots of people who aren't bothered by the potential
> for spamming and other frauds (like the postal mail scams about renewing
> your domain). That's OK, I can appreciate that you're all a  bunch of
> defeatists. But whois information is such a fraud what's the point?
> Especially with a postal mail contact. Have any of you ever contacted a
> domain registrant by postal mail for any legitimate reason?

You've clearly never worked real, susttained abuse rporting...

The fact that so many bogus/undesirable/bad registrations had clealry 
bogus contact information is a small hammer that you can repeatedly hit 
the almost terminally clueless registrars with until they finally work 
out that they are actively supporting the bad-ness.

Wimps bleating for the reduction in exposure of such data because they 
personally can't handle a few more spams will seriously hamstring very 
important, very extensive sub-LE abuse handling effort, the upshot if 
which is that the bleaters WILL receive a great deal more spam AND a 
suffer (directly or indirectly) from a great deal more of all the other 
kinds of net-nastiness such abuse reporting keeps somewhat in check at 
the moment.

Of course, if you are secretly such a net abuser, you should continue 
your whiney defense of your pathetic inability to handle your spam, as 
there are too many loons with significant input into making these 
decisions with equally over-bearing and narrow-sighted views of the 
importance of reducing their personal spam receipt who you may be able 
to sway over to your preference for making things a great deal worse...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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