[At-Large] Updates on the WHOIS WG

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

I believe that the SSAC, in their meetings in San Juan, were provided  
with evidence that the use of the WHOIS database for spamming is  
still very much alive and well. I've coped Dave Piscitello in on this  
email in hopes that he will elaborate (or perhaps tell me that I'm  
mistaken...)

On 18 Jul 2007, at 17:59, John L wrote:

>> I undestand that WHOIS data base is also a way of getting  
>> addresses for
>> spammig pourposes
>
> That used to be true, but it's not any more.
>
> In recent years, spammers have so many other sources of addresses that
> they don't bother to harvest WHOIS addresses.  I have some  
> addresses that
> appear only in WHOIS, and they don't get very much spam.
>
> R's,
> John
>
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