On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:25:27AM -0800, Michael Peddemors wrote:
I here people saying that they don't publish whois information because they don't want the email's made public. Okay, at least the registered company name, or individual who presented the ID should be there.
Without delving too far into this: there is no point whatsoever in attempting to conceal or obfuscate email addresses --not any more. It is an obsolete, "cargo cult" practice that many are still engaged in without grasping that it was quite thoroughly defeated by spammers and their associates years ago. That said, I concur in full with your opinions in re whois data and the need to assign it properly. I've long since stopped trying to deal with missing information and have adopted the rule that if the neighborhood looks sufficiently bad, I just block a /24 worth. That may sound arbitrary, but in practice it works extremely well. ---Rsk