At 10:50 PM 5/17/2002 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: >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.
But it's an issue of standing. You have no business dealing that causes you to challenge the information -- your advocacy for "the integrity of the public WHOIS database" is touching, but when the database stands up and tells us "I was in such pain until Derek saved me" I'll consider that useful. There's nothing that yet gives you a right to have any particular piece of information be accurate until you actually ned to use it; otherwise, it's make-work. As for the comparison with the abuse complaint front, that would be like your notifying someone's ISP that you'd heard them laughing about the fact that they'd signed up for their account using Rush Limbaugh's address and phone number. Again, no standing, no abuse, no reason for the call to be heeded.
