Re: [alac] ALERT: What is WHOIS really fpr

["John M Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

Please keep in mind that this issue is not the simplistic battle of 
virtuous privacy advocates vs. evil overly intrusive governments that 
some people make it out to be. Like it or not, there are some rather 
unsavory people on the net, many of whom do nasty things to individual 
users, from bestiality spam to stealing your bank account by phishing to 
stalking. I can tell you from personal experience that WHOIS info, even 
in its current rather imperfect form, is very useful when tracking them 
down.

I think it would be more productive to step back and try to understand 
why people register domains, and what you do or don't need your own 
domain to do.

R's,
John