They *were* planning to release the whois database on CDROM. That is, until the story got posted on http://slashdot.org and they got hit by the "Slashdot Effect".
Didn't stop the spam about it though, I got a few of these:- ----- Begin Included Message -----
From sammy@technotrade.com Wed Sep 23 05:17:28 1998 Received: from bbcgate.bbc.co.uk by sunf0.rd.bbc.co.uk; Wed, 23 Sep 98 05:17:27 BST Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by bbcgate.bbc.co.uk (8.8.5/8.7.2) with ESMTP id FAA29405 for <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 05:17:25 +0100 (BST) From: sammy@technotrade.com Received: from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust100.tnt2.sdg1.da.uu.net [208.250.122.100]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA12849; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809230416.VAA12849@goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net> To: massmail_to_admins@technotrade.com Date: Wed, 23 Sep 98 21:13:51 EST Subject: InterNIC Email Addresses CD: $249
NOW AVAILABLE: Every email address of every domain admin/tech/billing contact on the internet! Only $249: http://domainsondisk.com or http://domainsondisc.com Domains On Disc is the most up-to-date, complete and searchable list of contact information for every registered .com, .net, .edu and .org domain name on the Internet. You may now email offers for your products/services to 100,000's of prospects for pennies... GUERILLA MARKETING AT ITS FINEST!!!!!!!!!! The internet will never be the same again! ----- End Included Message -----
At 07:27 9/23/98 +0100, you wrote:
They *were* planning to release the whois database on CDROM. That is, until the story got posted on http://slashdot.org and they got hit by the "Slashdot Effect".
Didn't stop the spam about it though, I got a few of these:-
Domains On Disc is the most up-to-date, complete and searchable list of contact information for every registered .com, .net, .edu and .org domain name on the Internet.
You may now email offers for your products/services to 100,000's of prospects for pennies...
GUERILLA MARKETING AT ITS FINEST!!!!!!!!!!
The internet will never be the same again!
But, of course, (according to the statement on their website) "It has never been our intention to have this product used as source for Unsolicited Commercial E-mail." How Clintonesque a definition: emailing to 100,000 and guerilla marketing does not equal UCE/spam. Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr! Dean Robb PC-EASY computer services (757) 495-EASY [3279]
Digex cold-called me today. I explained that I knew DougH from before the Chinese Restaurant Daze, but he still didn't getaklew. Salesmen, sigh.... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Dean Robb wrote:
How Clintonesque a definition: emailing to 100,000 and guerilla marketing does not equal UCE/spam.
Dean Robb
For some reason, I found it quite humorous last night when we got SPAM sent directly to abuse @ insync.net. Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Joe Shaw wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Dean Robb wrote:
How Clintonesque a definition: emailing to 100,000 and guerilla marketing does not equal UCE/spam.
Dean Robb
For some reason, I found it quite humorous last night when we got SPAM sent directly to abuse @ insync.net.
You've been hit by the new breed of spammers. Ex *nix admins put out of business by MS NT. They like to save you a step by sending the spam complaint and the spam in the same message to the place where it all ends up anyways.. ;) Tim ---------------------------------------------------- Timothy M. Wolfe | Why surf when you can Sail? tim@clipper.net | Join Oregon's Premier Sr. Network Engineer | Wireless Internet Provider! ClipperNet Corporation | http://www.clipper.net/ ----------------------------------------------------
At 13:02 9/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
How Clintonesque a definition: emailing to 100,000 and guerilla marketing does not equal UCE/spam.
Heh. I don't buy their explanation either - if you look closely at the node from UUNet that the spam was sent out on, you'll see it came from San Diego. The domain name is registered to an address in San Diego. Coincidence ? Hrm. Here are some articles on the fate of those behind this fiasco. http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/article/0,2334,14630,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15221.html http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980921b.html You'll notice in the Wired article that one of the people involved admits that the list was for marketing.. "demographic research for direct mail campaigns." Grr. I hope the list didn't go too far. ************************************************** Andrea Di Lecce (416) 935-5700 Rogers@Home Network Operations 1 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, M4Y 2Y5 **************************************************
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