Congress (Still) Looking at whois

bief writes: "A NY Times [free reg., blah, blah] story examines the whois database debate and provides a fair reading of the current situation about the list that which is being abused by 'marketers who regularly cull the Whois database for e-mail addresses and phone numbers to add to their spam lists.' Responses from registrars to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property were due on February 1st, but Chris J. Katopis, counsel to the subcommittee, said that as of last week many registrars had not replied. 'If they're not going to respond to a government inquiry,' he said, 'what are they going to do to respond to an aggrieved individual when something happens?'"

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Coincidence?

[UnifiedTechs]

This is funny, I got this E-mail in my box seconds before this story was posted.

I visited WWW.GEEK-HOUSE.ORG, and noticed that you're not listed on some search engines! I think we can offer you a service which can help you increase traffic and the number of visitors to your website.


The address I got this E-mail on is NOT shown on the site and is ONLY listed on the whois, I've managed to keep this account spam free for over a year till now.