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Re: NSI again removes services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Oct 20 19:58:47 1999
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Chris Cappuccio's message
of "Wednesday, October 20, 1999 14:14:12 -0700"
regarding "Re: NSI again removes services"
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[ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 14:14:12 (-0700), Chris Cappuccio wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: NSI again removes services
>
> The fact that several widely used Linux distributions still have this
> ancient, broken program that I cobbled together from old finger source code
> nearly 8 years ago should speak for itself ;)
*Eight* years old! Even the latest version of the real whois isn't
quite that old yet! ;-) I had no idea! Congratulations at least for
having your code survive for that long. That might also explain why I
wasn't able to find a canonical distribution site for the source code.
Sometimes I wonder about the tastes of some of those who make up Linux
distributions. Other times I wonder whether or not they've just got a
hate on for anything from *BSD! :-)
(Oh how I pine for the idea of a single distributed rwhois-style
database where a simple query would always find the answer no matter
who's whois data it was!)
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Greg A. Woods
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