[27447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Funk *that* (was Re: whois broke again?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sun Feb 20 05:44:05 2000
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:42:17 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
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In-Reply-To: <9A74C89D6696D2118E500008C7BA7C56108B2801@wcomexch1.wcom.net>; from Leonard, Jason M. on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:32:35AM -0500
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On 02/19/00, "Leonard, Jason M." <Jason.Leonard@wcom.net> wrote:
> How hard could it be to maintain a mirror or something close to a mirror?
> I'm willing to donate a box and a few hours a week. Email me off list with
> your input and I'll post the results.
According to the miles of legalese on either end of the WHOIS
data, such a mirror would be illegal. Whether that's actually
enforcable or not is something I don't feel qualified to try
and debate with the lawyers who appear to be running NSI.
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