Re: Verisign Spamming by Snail Mail

[Mark Petersen]

Hi Doug,     Any chance you could post the back side of that pseudo-invoice on your site also? I haven't actually had a chance to take a look at one of the Verisign variety of these yet. I've only seen the Interland and Register.Com versions. I'd be interested to see what the language is that they are binding folks to (as stated in the signature area of the form) when they sign and return these. Thanks, -Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Friend To: Mark Petersen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Verisign Spamming by Snail Mail I think there is a bigger issue here than the mining of the whois database. That happens all the time, and ususually it's pretty easy to filter out the spammers that are getting addresses this way. IMHO the bigger issue is that this is the same company that operates the root registry that all CNO domains go through.  Most people recognize the name Verisign/NetworkSolutions, and my guess is a lot of these "invoices" will get paid because the thing looks like an invoice. I've put the fax we received on a site called http://domainscams.com, and I plan on linking to this. Doug. Quoting Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > MessageHowever they go about acquiring their data source, it's still > unsolicited contact > when they snail or E mail our clients. > And if it's WHOIS data they're drawing from, whether it be from and > online source, > or a CD, I would think it's WHOIS mining. > > -Mark >   ----- Original Message ----- >   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >   Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:40 AM >   Subject: RE: Verisign Spamming by Snail Mail > > >   So do these guys have to be mining the whois data in order to be > sending out these mail messages? Can't they buy (or otherwise cut a deal > for) the $10,000 whois dire ctory and simply use that as their data > source? Isn't that legal? I'm not advocating for it, just about the > legality. > >   -Tim >   -- >   myOstrich Internet >   http://www.myostrich.net >