[23506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more Internic nightmare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Tue Mar 23 23:10:36 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:19:04 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
In-Reply-To: <36F83D7F.75193564@rbbsystems.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 20:19 3/23/99 -0500, Nick Bastin wrote:
>I would suggest forcing people to register to use the whois database.
>Make it open to anybody, with free registration, but require
>registration. Then restrict users to, say, 250 queries per day, which
>would radically slow the pace of mining, allow most people more queries
>than they would ever use in a 24-hour period, and would make it hard to
>resell the service. Now, you'd probably need some kind of exception
>program whereby with proper authorization, or something, certain users
>would have the 250 query limit eliminated, but at least you'd know who
>they were, and if they abused it, cut them off.
That's a pretty good idea. It works for hundreds of other sites, why not
for WhoIs? Require a password (to help avoid account theft), but keep it
free.
"Small minds can only contemplate small ideas".....Unknown
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