RE: [nc-whois] [fwd] [ga] WHOIS email addresses and spam: some stats (from: gkirikos@yahoo.com)

[Steve Metalitz <metalitz@iipa.com>]

These conclusions appear consistent with those reached in the FTC study on
spam which we talked about a while ago.    

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From: Thomas Roessler [mailto:roessler-mobile@does-not-exist.net]
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fyi
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From: George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:59:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ga] WHOIS email addresses and spam: some stats
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Hello,

CDT has done a study on sources of spam (including emails from the
WHOIS database), with a report (PDF format) at:

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.pdf

It turns out that in the period of the study (6 months), they only
received 1 spam from WHOIS. A policy of rotating WHOIS email addresses
regularly, using 'disposable' email addresses, as some registrars have
started to do, would probably alleviate most of the concerns over
"mining" the WHOIS database by spammers.

Other sources, like posting e-mail addresses on websites, turn out to
be far more important in attracting spam.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.autoinsurance.ca/
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