John, This is a little off topic, but I've found these guys to be good at quick-registering domain names:
http://www.snapnames.com/ Their technology and service seems sound. They also have a domain protection service, but I've not used it. Dan On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:58, John Shacklett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We just reclaimed an old domain name. We had it for a couple of >years, then it expired and some bandits in the Philippines >grabbed it and held it hostage, and when it expired again we >grabbed it back. The day, and I mean the very day, that I put >that domain in as an alias for our primary domain, I started >receiving a flood of crap for employees that left more than five years ago. I was >astounded. > >Talk about firing blanks. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn \ WCNet >Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 3:39 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Are spammers idiots?? > > >I've been clearing some mail accounts that customers have >abandoned, haven't checked their mail for a couple months or >longer. It's not unusual to find 4000 messages or more, 20 MB >or more, ALL of it spam. No one on a dial-up connection is >going to wait for all that mail to download, and nobody using >WebMail has the patience to wade through all that debris. > >My point being that spammers can easily overload a mail server, >sap up all the drive space if some kind of spam control isn't >in place. What would be the point? They're cutting their own throats, so to speak. > >Glenn Z. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.