At 4:49 PM -0700 4/20/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >One point of clarification. It is *not* a violation of terms and >conditions on the usage of public whois data to use *postal mail* for >solicitations. The ICANN policy only prohibits e-mail, telephone, and >fax bulk solicitations. (see section 3.3.5 of the Registrar Accreditation >Agreement at http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm) > >So they can legally mine the public whois and send postal mail >solicitations. But they cannot send out deceptive mailings, i.e. those >that violate postal regulations.
True, but then Tucows could also put them in the "abusive use of resources" (e.g., a registrar is free to rate-limit sites' access to the whois servers, at least we have to assume they're allowed to do that, since Verisign does it :-) ) -- +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
