[76482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Sullivan)
Sun Dec 12 06:36:47 2004
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:36:25 -0700
From: Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412112139500.31092-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
william(at)elan.net wrote:
> It matters if we're talking about Tom, John or Susan working for some
> commercial company and contacting me as part of the activity of that
> entity, in that case I'd like to know about the domain and don't want
> to see its whois data hidden.
I find it somewhat amusing that the whois record for elan.net refers to
a hostmaster role account and a P.O. Box. ;-)
I do agree that a "one size fits all" rule rarely fits all situations.
Do I support anonymous registrations for non-commercial sites as long as
they can still be contacted? Yes. Do I support them for large
corporations? Not necessarily. Do I support the right of end users to
filter their mail any way they choose? Sure. Do I support the right of
a provider to filter their user's mail any way they choose? Not
necessarily.
Unfortunately, there isn't a perfect way to tell if a site is commercial
or not by it's domain name. To me, a false positive is worse than spam
getting through. I realize other people have other opinions. I just
don't want to see wide spread filtering of mail from anonymous (ala
domainsbyproxy) whois records. I feel it damages an important part of
the internet with little long term benefit.
