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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Seems like the CDT report's findings are outdated.
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Thomas Roessler runs a little test and says the 2003 spam report from the Center for Democracy & Technology, which is "often cited as evidence that WHOIS data mining is not really responsible for any significant amount of spam," may... [Read More]
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Posted by fnord | June 28, 2004 10:20 PM
Posted on June 28, 2004 22:20