[24074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Mon May 17 14:45:23 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:35:22 -0700
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET>
To: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990517131656.014d5650@pop3.enterzone.net>; from John Fraizer on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:22:45PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:22:45PM -0400, John Fraizer put this into my mailbox:
>
> No I don't. To quote Andrew Dice Clay, "NSI can..." Well, you know. I
> refuse to be bound by rules and regulations that NSI them selfs arbitrarily
> ignore. How many others have received both email and snailmail from NSI,
> addressed to a name you use ONLY for domain registrations, offering you
> some commercial service of NSI?
Or, perhaps more hilariously, how many people have gotten "You've been
pre-approved!" credit card offers explaining how their role account
(e.g. "DALnet Hostmaster") has been carefully selected among hundreds of
potential applicants for a credit card?
*Someone's* obviously been mining the whois database and giving it to
direct mailers. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were NSI.
-dalvenjah
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