On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 02:42:33 +0000, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:
Exactly *what* purpose would a phone call or fax (why not TELEX if we're doing retro tech?) serve?
Precisely to establish that the registrant humanly responds to messages at its published addresses. The registrar would have to employ a CAPTCHA on his token-accepting site; otherwise clever rogues would automate the token-submission process:) But this is all trivial and done daily by numerous institutions. Sascha perhaps your question arose because I was imprecise in my brief earlier message; this procedure would not be an anti-spam measure, but it would greatly simplify the next steps in anti-spam processes if the registrar community ever becomes serious about halting spam (itself again easy to do but that is the subject of another message). Kind regards to all Jeffrey Race