[19728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois on CDROM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BrandonButterworth)
Wed Sep 23 11:47:30 1998
From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:27:29 +0100
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: cjcarr@inert.net
> They *were* planning to release the whois database on CDROM. That is,
> until the story got posted on http://slashdot.org and they got hit by the
> "Slashdot Effect".
Didn't stop the spam about it though, I got a few of these:-
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To: massmail_to_admins@technotrade.com
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 98 21:13:51 EST
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