Internic hosage (fwd)

Sun Mar 22 18:18:53 UTC 1998

On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 09:25:02PM -0500, Dean Robb wrote:
> So far, MOST (but not all) of those (that I've seen) arguing vehemently for
> complete anonymity in WhoIs and/or having no valid contact data are those
> persons trying to hide their identity because they are engaging in Net
> abuse of one form or another.  There are a few, though, that are just
> privacy fanatics with no special agenda.

I'll note here, (being the smut monger that I am :-) that several of
the "live-cam" site operators, the JenniCam, for example, have whois
information that is _useful_, but might be accused of being
"misleading" for good reasons which I ought not have to explain.

On the net, no one knows where you live. 

Cheers,
-- jr 'unless you put your ICBM address in your sig' a
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra at baylink.com
Member of the Technical Staff             Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued
The Suncoast Freenet      "Two words: Darth Doogie."  -- Jason Colby,
Tampa Bay, Florida             on alt.fan.heinlein             +1 813 790 7592

Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com