Re: draft-campbell-whois-00.txt

Allen,

per your complaint against Joker/Alan Ralsky please take it up with ICANN
they are very interested in this as Whois policy is reviewed.

please file your complaints at
http://www.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi

and feel free to make an automated posting mechanism so that everyone can
tie it into their scripts.

also you may want to encourage your registrar to 'hide' your e-mail
address.


best regards,

-rick

CTO, Registrars Constituency.

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Allen Smith wrote:

>
> I apologize about the cross-posting, but this is something that
> multiple lists are appropriate for discussing. The applicability of
> ietf-whois and uwho should be obvious; the [email protected]
> mailing list is for the http://www.rfc-ignorant.org project, which
> (among other things) tries to reduce spam (and other network abuse)
> burdens by providing blacklists (blocklists) of domains
> (whois.rfc-ignorant.org) and IP addresses (ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org)
> which do not provide proper contact data (to which complaints about
> spam and other abuse can be sent). (Even if one does not have time to
> send complaints (even via automated means such as spamcop.net), I have
> found that blocking those IP address blocks lacking adequate WHOIS
> information to be useful in blocking spam in general - there is a
> correlation between such and inadequate/nonexistent policies at ISPs
> et al versus spam (or versus having an open relay which is used to
> transmit spam). There is also the correlation that many spammers,
> other than "mainsleaze" companies, tend to want to conceal their
> postal addresses to prevent legal papers from being served on them
> - Alan Ralsky, with his addresses located in the middle of the Hudson
> River (which I am sorry to say his registrar, Joker.com, refuses to do
> anything about), is a notorious example.) Given this anti-spam usage,
> the RIPE anti-spam WG mailing list is also included.
>