You are wrong. NetSol is *Selling* access to the whois records, paying customers get a login and password to whoisftp.networksolutions.com !!! On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rodney L Caston wrote: | | I wouldn't put the blame 'directly' on NA for this one, many groups have | taken it upon themsleves to mine the whois database of NS. I won't name | names cause at certain times a few major ISPs have done it as well. | Regardless, spam is spam, and there isn't a good way to prevent people | from mining the NS database. other then to ditch contact info on the | records, which would be... silly. | | Rodney Caston | SBC Internet Services | | | On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, deeann mikula wrote: | | > | > | > this is more of a questions for the domain-masters out there, but has | > anyone noticed a proliferation of spam to their contact addresses for | > their domains hosted at NS? | > | > we have an address used *specifically* for admin and tech contacts for | > all domains hosted by us. it is NOT a personal email addy. it | > couldnt have been picked up from newsgroups, online forms, etc., but | > ONLY appears in our domain records. | > | > i've been the recipient of that address for about 1.5 years, yet i've | > only seen spam come into this address in the past 2 months or so. | > i'm talking about like 10/day! | > | > did i miss something about network solutions selling off their | > database of email addresses? | > | > deeann m.m. mikula | > | > telerama public access internet | > director of operations | > http://www.telerama.com | > | > | > | | | --- Reverend Chris Cappuccio http://www.dqc.org/~chris/