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Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.'
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan () fugawi net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:24:53 -0500
At 02:48 PM 2/17/2001 -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
Roland Dobbins wrote: > > I'm sure most've you have already seen this - but if not, be advised > that Network Solutions are now more aggressively marketing the contents > of WHOIS to spammers, etc.: > > http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB982282009562632162.html To be more accurate: They are aggressively marketing *some* of the contents of WHOIS to Postal Mail marketers. e-mail addresses are *not* provided. Spam is UBE/UCE sent to e-mail addresses (says Paul Vixie, so it must be true :-))
Yes, but same damn thing. I was never asked if I wanted to check off "Do not solicit". My record was created when some of the people at NSI gave a hoot. I used to respect Network Solutions. "Used to" is the key phrase. -M Regards, -- Martin Hannigan hannigan () fugawi net Fugawi Networks Engineering Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net Ph: 617.742.2693 Fax: 617.742.2300
Current thread:
- 'Old wine in new bottles.' Roland Dobbins (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Rodney Joffe (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Martin Hannigan (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Vijay Gill (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Eric A. Hall (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Alan Hannan (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Steve Sobol (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' David Lesher (Feb 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Mathew Butler (Feb 24)
- Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Rodney Joffe (Feb 24)