[34744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sat Feb 17 19:36:20 2001
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:24:53 -0500
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From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
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At 02:48 PM 2/17/2001 -0700, Rodney Joffe wrote:
>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
>:-))
Yes, but same damn thing. I was never asked if I wanted to check off
"Do not solicit". My record was created when some of the people at NSI
gave a hoot.
I used to respect Network Solutions. "Used to" is the key phrase.
-M
Regards,
--
Martin Hannigan hannigan@fugawi.net
Fugawi Networks Engineering
Boston, MA http://www.fugawi.net
Ph: 617.742.2693 Fax: 617.742.2300