Re: WHOIS Privacy Stalemate... Again

["David Jones" <david.t.jones () gmail com>]

All very good arguments for the ARIN type WHOIS databases, but not
necessarily every individual who has a domain name that points at their ISPs
web hosting server.

-David Jones


On 8/22/07, Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> Larry Seltzer wrote:
>
> > > > what is the purpose of Whois information?
> >
> > It's an e-mail and postal mail database for spammers
>
> That's not really a big concern these days, given all the other sources
> of equally good (and much better) address information (such as local
> addressbook harvesters in all the millions of spam-bots out there).
>
> Whois contact information was intended as a "fix" for when the net grew
> past the point that if you saw Host A repeatedly doing something
> naughty not only didn't you know who to contact about it to get it
> fixed, but you couldn't easily get your colonel to bitch at his colonel
> to get it fixed.
>
> All further slumming down of the net to the rancid sewer it now is
> follows from subsequent moves to weaken/reduce/remove that incredibly
> limited remaining form of collective responsibility, on which the whole
> stupid thing is built.
>
> If you're not prepared to put some reliable, accurate contact
> information up for public perusal you're not worthy of connecting a
> machine/domain/etc to the net.
>
> If you think "reducing your own received spam" is more important than
> the bigger picture issue of controlling _all_ net-nastiness then you
> _really_ are not worthy of connecting a machine/domain/etc to the net
> and we should be suspicious of your worthiness to that DSL/cable
> connection too...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
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