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chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams) wrote:

>Holtzman found that 32 percent of the Whois traffic - more than generated by 
>all of Europe - was initiated by a single company. He won't name names but 
>said two companies in particular badly abused the database and are now locked 
>out. The culprits initiated parallel sessions via HyperText Transfer Protocol 
>with multiple computers and slowed down by 50 percent access to Whois for the 
>rest of the Net. 

>Can identify source
>Numerous domain name holders said they regularly receive direct mail marketing 
>solicitations from such companies as American Express Co. and Verio Inc. and 
>can tell by the addressing that the source is Whois.                       

As Holtzman said, this isn't spamming as your message subject
indicates - it's denial of service.

Not to defend Verio, but...

The anecdotal evidence you cite certainly points to Verio mining the
InterNIC database, which is allowed by NSI according to the message
you quoted. However, you cite no provable connection between Verio
mining and Verio causing a DoS

Remember, just because all A is B doesn't mean that a given B must be
A.