[34741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Sat Feb 17 16:54:00 2001
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:48:19 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
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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
:-))
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Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
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"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)
