[19201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Walden)
Wed Sep 2 13:14:12 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:59:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andy Walden <andy@enigma.mtco.com>
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809021622.LAA20554@lawgiver.megacity.org>
> Was this company "an abuser" because they wanted to do lookups of a useful
> nature? (And yes, they put in caching and such so they wouldn't be querying
Yes. Thats not the intent of the whois database in my opinion. Marketing
and general greed causes the most problems on the Internet and generates
the most instances of someone trying to exploit something for the almighty
dollar.
-andy
