At 6:14 PM -0700 5/17/02, wxWeb.com wrote: > > Would you support the same type of program for, say, abuse complaints >> to an ISP? If not, expound upon me the difference between the two? > >That's simple. You are comparing apples and oranges. > >The two have nothing in common. One is because of something >affirmatively that a user did that may have caused harm to a third >party, the other is for doing nothing except providing incorrect >information into a database.
If someone falisfies their data, putting in, say "000-000-0000" for a phone number, or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave (for non-.USians, that's the White House), that's an affirmative action they've done which has caused harm to the integrity of the public WHOIS database. >The two are not even similar, nor is the relationship between the >isp/user and registrar/registrant close enough to draw a proper >analogy. How do you reach that conclusion? In both cases, the Provider is providing a service to another, be it the use of a dial-up pool or the use of a domain name. The similarity seems fairly striking to me actually. D -- +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | [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 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
