On 26-Feb-99 Bob Allisat wrote:

It is an issue of privacy, of the right to control our personal or professional data which is currently laundered fully in public by data-miners, advertisers and anyone else who imagine's it's their right to my name, address, telephone number etc or those of my collegues, co-workers or business relation- ships. All of which are none of their damned business.

And as I said, it is every network providers option whether they chose to allow access to their network from those hosts. Many will simply choose not to provide transport to hosts in a TLD that refuse to provide this information. And that IS their right, and their business. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William X. Walsh <william@dso.net> Date: 26-Feb-99 Time: 15:11:28 ---------------------------------- "We may well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts." - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, 1977