Nicholas Bastin <nbastin@opnet.com>

Anyone noticed this lately when they do a dump in whois?

(47) bulk_whois_optout: N|

Anybody know when this became an option? (And can we charge NetSol for the amount of mail we receive between when we submit the change order and when it actually gets done?)

i'm not sure when it actually started, but it was recently discussed on another mailing list. From: PRIVACY Forum Digest Wednesday, 14 February 2001 Volume 10 : Issue 03 (http://www.vortex.com/privacy/priv.10.03) Excerpt: If you don't want to participate in NSI's bulk/marketing bonanza, you'll need to avail yourself (*now* that you'll know about them) of their opt-outs. Buried within their privacy policy it says that you can send notes with the text: remove bulk access or: remove domain respectively, in the subject lines of e-mail to: privacy@networksolutions.com with a list in the body of the message detailing the domains (for which you are the registrant) that you wish to opt-out. It is not detailed how such requests are authenticated, nor is any particular format for the lists specified. If a human is reading those requests, they're likely to be getting pretty busy very soon!