[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Ryan]

>They probably used it as the admin contact email for your domain name
>registration, and the spammer probably got it from a whois query.
>Certainly that's what a whois on slowest.net suggests. Same thing
>happened to me a while back.
>
>iiNet could perhaps reduce their customers' spam count by offering to
>list their own dns admin address in that slot of people's domain
>resitration listings - but that would mean more work for iiNet, so
>they'd probably have to charge extra for it. What they could and
>probably should do without extra cost, however, is ask in advance what
>email address customers would like listed in the whois database
>("which address do you prefer to receive spam on?").
>
>Colin

Yes I agree.

The email address you saw on my whois listing is not the email
I'm getting spammed on, hence my excessive repetition of words to the effect
that nobody should know about its existence... and also why I won't shut
up about the topic and keep blaming iiNet :)

Ryan