On 28 Sep 2004, at 18:27, David Farrar wrote:
Umm if the reply won't be off-topic, why do you think restricting access to the entire .nz zone file is a bad thing,
Blocking the zone doesn't fix the problem, the problem is with whois not the .nz zone. My contact information is not in the zone, but it is in the whois info. Your doing a poor band aid fix, it's not worthy as a New Zealand No.8 wired fix, your "fixing" the wrong thing. The real problem is whois, not the zone data. Personally I couldn't care if people can't get my contact details out of whois, (Hmm do 90% of the population even know whois exists?) but I'm fairly sure some people would strongly oppose changing the returned info from whois so that domain scammers couldn't use it. Yeah I know put a submission in to the great and holy INZ for consideration, don't see the point in that - the powers that be might read it, but they will do what the want, not what is right. If an alcoholic keeps falling down when drunk, you don't tie him to a chair to stop him falling down.... :D