This would be such a good idea, if someone HADN'T SENT A "Dear Friend, this is not an illegal scam to make money!!!" message to my post office box. Sheesh. -Mat Butler -----Original Message----- From: Rodney Joffe [mailto:rjoffe@centergate.com] Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:48 PM To: rdobbins@netmore.net; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: 'Old wine in new bottles.' Roland Dobbins wrote:

I'm sure most've you have already seen this - but if not, be advised that Network Solutions are now more aggressively marketing the contents of WHOIS to spammers, etc.:

http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB982282009562632162.html

To be more accurate: They are aggressively marketing *some* of the contents of WHOIS to Postal Mail marketers. e-mail addresses are *not* provided. Spam is UBE/UCE sent to e-mail addresses (says Paul Vixie, so it must be true :-)) -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)