[34760] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NetSol Bulk Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Feb 19 10:30:18 2001
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From: Richard Welty <rwelty@vpnet.com>
To: Nicholas Bastin <nbastin@opnet.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:24:06 -0500
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Nicholas Bastin <nbastin@opnet.com>
> Anyone noticed this lately when they do a dump in whois?
> (47) bulk_whois_optout: N|
> Anybody know when this became an option? (And can we charge
> NetSol for
> the amount of mail we receive between when we submit the change order
> and when it actually gets done?)
i'm not sure when it actually started, but it was recently discussed
on another mailing list.
From:
PRIVACY Forum Digest Wednesday, 14 February
2001 Volume 10 : Issue 03
(http://www.vortex.com/privacy/priv.10.03)
Excerpt:
If you don't want to participate in NSI's bulk/marketing
bonanza, you'll need to avail yourself (*now* that you'll
know about them) of their opt-outs. Buried within their
privacy policy it says that you can send notes with the
text:
remove bulk access
or:
remove domain
respectively, in the subject lines of e-mail to:
privacy@networksolutions.com
with a list in the body of the message detailing the
domains (for which you are the registrant) that you wish
to opt-out.
It is not detailed how such requests are authenticated,
nor is any particular format for the lists specified. If a
human is reading those requests, they're likely to be
getting pretty busy very soon!
