[SC-Help] Re: hotmail/msn, gmail, et.al.

[Aviatrix]

Doug wrote:

> Long time paid user, but not a sysadim. Over the past several months [since 
> retirement], I've been making a concerted effort to send a complaint to 
> yahoo each time I see a domain registered with a yahoo address. I had read 
> in one of the ng that such usage violates yahoo's TOS. Haven't determined 
> whether it's done any good, but I'm just trying to help the cause.

Why are you doing this? How do you think it will help any cause?

I have a (little-used) Yahoo account. I'm not aware of any TOS that 
prohibit me from using my Yahoo address in a Whois record. Maybe that 
prohibition didn't exist when I signed up with Yahoo. Maybe it was there 
in the small print but I never noticed it. I have never used my Yahoo 
address for a domain name registration, but I'm sure there are many many 
people out there who put their Yahoo address in their domain name 
registration, in all innocence and in good faith, because they're not 
aware of this bit of small print.

Or are you restricting your reporting activities to domains that have 
been used for spamming? This would make slightly more sense, but I don't 
think it would achieve much... a spammer isn't going to worry about the 
loss of a disposable Yahoo account. In fact I don't even think spammers 
are worried about the loss of a domain any more... domains are far too 
cheap, and I suspect that with the recent free .info domain offers 
spammers will have been stockpiling domains so that the moment they lose 
one they can just use another one.