WHOIS and SPAM
The 2003 CDT spam report is often cited as evidence that WHOIS data mining is not really responsible for any significant amount of spam.
In early May, I changed the contact e-mail address displayed in the WHOIS records of most of my domain names to a fresh address that is not being spam-filtered. For six weeks, the address did not receive spam. I almost forgot about it. Now, I'm getting daily spam at that address.
Seems like the CDT report's findings are outdated.
