[15810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic hosage (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Mar 22 13:38:01 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:18:53 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980321212502.00b4bcb8@norfolk.infi.net>; from Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net> on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 09:25:02PM -0500
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Dean Robb wrote:
> So far, MOST (but not all) of those (that I've seen) arguing vehemently for
> complete anonymity in WhoIs and/or having no valid contact data are those
> persons trying to hide their identity because they are engaging in Net
> abuse of one form or another. There are a few, though, that are just
> privacy fanatics with no special agenda.
I'll note here, (being the smut monger that I am :-) that several of
the "live-cam" site operators, the JenniCam, for example, have whois
information that is _useful_, but might be accused of being
"misleading" for good reasons which I ought not have to explain.
On the net, no one knows where you live.
Cheers,
-- jr 'unless you put your ICBM address in your sig' a
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