Subject: Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:14:51PM +0100 Quoting Roland Perry (roland@linx.net):
In message <3EFC5B2F.11611.1E0AAC12@localhost>, Nick Nelson <nick@lunarpages.com> writes
I was thinking more along the line of a bot submitting every possible 10 digit phone number. Do the nation a favor.
Which is, of course, what might happen with email addresses, if someone made the very bad decision to implement a plausible opt-out scheme for junk emails.
We had this discussion in Sweden a couple years back, in the operator forum, and we more or less joked that wildcards with exception was the only acceptable opt-out, where a domain holder might submit a domain name and state "only those email accounts matched by "*.namn.se" who opt out of my wildcard opt-out may be sent spam". At the time I was working at the swedish TLD registry and immediately offered "*.se" as wildcard, since that was "my domain". ;-) We still have no such register. Or any register. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE What's the MATTER Sid? ... Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory?