Re: SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)

[Mitch Halmu <mitch () netside net>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Not fair toward the general public. Besides those wearing hats of many 
> > colors and marketing interests, there are many legitimate uses of this
> > information. Why hide such data anyway?
>
> because the major use of the whois data has become spam
>
> randy

You mean spammers are so stupid as not to know that spamming a network
POC is the quickest way to account oblivion? If anything, I thought they
weed out such addresses from their lists...

--Mitch
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