Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

["Anne P. Mitchell Esq." <amitchell () isipp com>]

> Well, personally for me, I use secret registration because I was tired of all the spam I got. Spammers scrape whois 
> data for email addresses. I not trying to hide my identity on the web, I just don't like spam. I'm not some dark evil 
> force.

And of course then there's the conventional wisdom that (some) anti-spammers see secret registration as a sign that you 
are likely a spammer, or otherwise engaged in bad activities.

Anne (who is of course professionally trained as a dark evil force ;-) )

Anne P. Mitchell, 
Attorney at Law
GDPR Compliance Consultant
Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)
Legislative Consultant
CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy
Legal Counsel: The CyberGreen Institute
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Ret. Professor of Law, Lincoln Law School of San Jose
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