> From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net> > ... > If the contact data are invalid, report to RIR or to ICANN. They > are obliged to correct the data. No, contrary to the common hope to extract petty vengence from spammers, they are merely forced to provide contact data that is not obviously bogus. Worse, by forcing spammers to be less creative, these efforts make them harder to recognize. A random name and address from the nearest phone book is not readily identifiable, unlike the false names previously favored by many spammers. Both sorts of domain contacts are useless for contacting spammers. Besides, domain contact addresses generally unrelated and are certainly irrelevant to the contact addresses for collecting money in almost all spam. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com