[39365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SWIP update intervals (was: Re: Getting an AS and /18)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Tue Jul 3 16:29:16 2001
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:21:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Not fair toward the general public. Besides those wearing hats of many
> > colors and marketing interests, there are many legitimate uses of this
> > information. Why hide such data anyway?
>
> because the major use of the whois data has become spam
>
> randy
You mean spammers are so stupid as not to know that spamming a network
POC is the quickest way to account oblivion? If anything, I thought they
weed out such addresses from their lists...
--Mitch
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