[15805] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Mar 22 02:31:11 1998
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:19:54 -0800 (PST)
To: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>>> Who should have access to whois contact information and its misuse.
>> I put my data in there for use by folk with net ops problems. My
>> understanding is this is the purpose for which whois data have always
>> been given.
> Correct.
I did not realize this was a graded quiz.
> The misuse aspect has come about because spammers (primarily) have bots
> that will harvest all the addresses in WhoIs and send them their drivel.
You mean @home? They abused the data, though not then net to deliver their
junk mail.
Seems like a lot of work when NSI is said to be willing to sell you those
same data.
randy
