Re: [44net] 44Net Digest, Vol 2, Issue 22

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:43:53 -0800, Bill Vodall wa7nwp@gmail.com wrote:

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whois on a name it failed. The spammers have made it impossible to put up a whois because they mined them all for valid emails so organizations had to abandon it.

Could it be filtered to only allow access from 44 net clients....

Bill, WA7NWP

I suppose, but then how would a ham who needed to contact a coordinator to obtain a net-44 address get the coordinator's contact information?

I only raised the issue to point out the possibility of exploitation but I may have been confusing whois with finger. Whois is for domain information so it has limited use for spammers, finger was the bigger issue years ago.