[SpamCop-List] Re: Spammer Contact Info.: What to Do with It?

[Mike Easter]

This would have looked better trimmed and contextualized, like this

Bob wrote:
> "Steve Holmes"

>> Seriously, though, if whois info can be bogus, what good is it? If
>> the billing contact is forged, how does the domain owner get renewal
>> notices?

> I don't think they are overly concerned about renewals since they're
> liable to be shut down for abuse before that. They know the risks of
> the business they are in. I believe that they tend to view domains as
> disposable.


.... instead of bottom posted like this below;  untrimmed,
non-contextualized, even including sigs and stuff that isn't being talked
about anymore.  If you bottom post like that in a topposting group,
people would rather that you toppost.


Bob wrote:
> "Steve Holmes" <sigerson at spammersgotohell.com> wrote in message
> news:415AFD37.8C122282 at spammersgotohell.com...
>> Steven Maesslein wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:18:52 -0500, Steve Holmes coughed into
>>> spamcop and left this in <415A53CC.946AAF2B at spammersgotohell.com>:
>>>
>>>> Is whois contact info. always correct or is there a chance I
>>>> would simply be annoying an innocent?
>>>
>>> If you're dealing with a spammer there's a significant chance that
>>> the whois information is either completely bogus or that it belongs
>>> to someone else.
>>>
>>
>> Was afraid of that. Too bad the postman just picked up the box with
>> the live copperhead.
>>
>> Seriously, though, if whois info can be bogus, what good is it? If
>> the billing contact is forged, how does the domain owner get renewal
>> notices?
>>
>> --
>> Steve Holmes
>> Executive Producer
>> "The New Ball Game"
>> "RailFAN"
>> 319-337-9507
>>
>
> I don't think they are overly concerned about renewals since they're
> liable to be shut down for abuse before that. They know the risks of
> the business they are in. I believe that they tend to view domains as
> disposable.
>
> Bob


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin