Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.'

[Martin Hannigan]

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,

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