----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Dafoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Patrick Greenwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 2:54 PM
Subject: RE: Verio Spamming
> > I'd say that if Verio is mining the data in this fashion a complaint
needs
> > to be made with NSI.
>
>
> I made a complaint last week and, as expected, Verio's activity does not
> fall under the NSI limitation. From NSI:
>
> =====
> Your email concerning use of the TLD zone files for mass marketing
purposes
> has been forwarded to me for response. Thank you for your inquiry. In
> answer to your question, the TLD zone file access agreement's specific
> prohibition against the transmission of unsolicited, commercial email
> (spam), is based upon the fact that the recipient of an email message
bears
> the cost of receiving the message in time spent online.
Conversely,
> unsolicited communications via telephone or mail do not ordinarily have a
> financial impact upon the recipient.
> =====
The logical extension of this last statement is that NSI considers that YOUR
TIME which is wasted even picking up the phone, let alone talking to some
sales guy from verio isn't worth anything. But then again, anyone who has
ever had to phone NSI for anything has already figured out that your time
isn't really worth anything (I'm on hold with NSI as I type this and it is
now 6 monutes and counting)
>
> I can understand this. After discussing the issue in here last week, I
> agree that Verio's practices are "not cool" but do not appear to violate
any
> NSI or ICANN agreement and certainly not any law.
> But I guess this means we can all solicit Verio's sizeable customer base,
> extracting the information from the TLD zone file, without remorse.
>
>
> Jeff Dafoe
> System Administrator
> Evolution Communications, Inc.
>
