[dns-operations] [Ext] Re: Denying Whois DB by GeoIP

[Leo Vegoda]

Doug Barton wrote:

[...]

> You might also consider the decades of research that has
> gone into demonstrating that spammers don't bother
> harvesting e-mail address from whois data.

Adding to all the anecdata, the only research I am aware of on this topic 
concluded that spammer do harvest e-mail addresses from whois records:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/sac-023-2012-02-25-en

Maybe things have changed since 2007. But I doubt it.

Regards,

Leo
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