The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ''Private Registration'' where they keep your email and other personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did? Warren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060112/b651c5f8/attachment.html
I''ve never bought into it, and haven''t had any problem. On 1/12/06, Warren Seltzer <warrens@actcom.net.il> wrote:> > The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ''Private > Registration'' where they keep your email and other personal info secret to > prevent spam. Is this a good deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you > wish you did? > > Warren > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060112/e86423dd/attachment.html
On 12 Jan 2006, at 20:55, Warren Seltzer wrote:> The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called > ''Private Registration'' where they keep your email and other > personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good deal? Is it > needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did?We sometimes get mail from "The Domain Registry of America" trying to get us to renew our domains with them at an outrageous price. Apart from that we''ve had no bother. Yours, Craig -- Craig Webster | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: craig@xeriom.net Xeriom.NET | f: +44 (0)131 661 0689 | w: http://xeriom.net
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006, Warren Seltzer wrote:> The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ''Private Registration'' > where they keep your email and other personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good > deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did?I get on the order of 5-10 messages a day to addresses that exist only in my DNS record. My spam filtering works pretty well, it''s not worth the money I''d spend on the ''private'' domain registration. Pointless, in my opinion. Ben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 155 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060112/1456344a/attachment.bin
On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006, Warren Seltzer wrote: >> The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called >> ''Private Registration'' >> where they keep your email and other personal info secret to >> prevent spam. Is this a good >> deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did? > > I get on the order of 5-10 messages a day to addresses that exist only > in my DNS record. My spam filtering works pretty well, it''s not worth > the money I''d spend on the ''private'' domain registration. > > Pointless, in my opinion. > > Ben > _______________________________________________\pointless += 1 -Ezra Zygmuntowicz Yakima Herald-Republic WebMaster http://yakimaherald.com 509-577-7732 ezra@yakima-herald.com