In message , Lin N ah writes:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Mark Davies wrote:

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[Mark's netsite changes list] I got asked on 1 July by Nick Griffin to not publish the changes list until some review I wasn't aware of that is apparently currently happening was completed.

Perhaps the DNC should explain to us why there is a problem with Mark's excellent netsites page.

The explanation I was given was that apparently some spammers had been trawling through the list of new domains to figure out what to look up to pick up a new collection of registrar/registrant/admin/technical contact addresses to spam. Apparently at least one spammer actually claimed to have used Mark's changes list as a source, which is presumably why the interium action was to ask for it to be taken down. As Steven Heath noted, there is a mention in the June Registrar newsletter; and it will be in the minutes from the June NZOC meeting which should be up RSN I'm told (apparently they were overlooked for a while in amongst everything else going on and now just need to be reviewed by NZOC for accuracy). And there should be some sort of call-for-comments coming out relatively soon (sometime in July?).

Is it doing any harm or is it because it isn't published by DNC and so not sanctioned?

Actually as I remember it Mark's site was one of the few that made it onto the original blessed list of those who could still do zone transfers when restrictions were put in place (a couple of years back). AFAICT it's merely the "source of addresses for spam" problem which makes it an issue, rather than "not run by the DNC". Ewen