Vittorio: Indeed you are correct about the SSAC report. However, the report hasn't been published on the ICANN site yet. I'll take a look if a copy was sent to the SSAC list - one that I can post for us on At-large. regards Robert On 18-Jul-07, at 3:06 PM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
John L ha scritto:
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.
Actually, in San Juan the SSAC released a report that says the exact opposite, showing that an email address that is published in Whois (and only there) gets up to 10'000 times more spam (if I remember well) than one that is not. I guess that Robert can provide pointers. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------
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