Quoting magic2147§optushome.com.au on Wednesday April 14, 2004:
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| For example at http://www.namescout.com/renewal/index.asp you can submit a 
| query about a .au domain registered through this foreign registrar and be provided 
| with the full expiry date and indeed an apparent offer to renew the domain regardless 
| of the length of time to the expiry date. (As anyone can see the expiry date for 
| namescout.com.au is 	August 3, 2004)

Whilst I agree with your sentiment, did you actually contact auDA and/or
Namescout first with the specifics about this before announcing it to the 
world? 

I know auDA has acted before in educating registrars when it has found
this kind of things. Therefore, I am wondering if it is a case of auDA
and the registrar ignoring your reports and you are contacting this list
out of frustration as a last resort; or whether you have a disregard for
people's privacy by not trying to get this fixed before you announce it.

kim