[27513] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Alternatives (was Re: whois broke again?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Luxemburg)
Mon Feb 21 19:41:23 2000
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From: "Rachel Luxemburg" <rslux@link-net.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:34:49 -0800
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NSI arguably has the rights to the existing whois database but by no means does
that give them any control over any other listing of names and contact
information.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Rodney Joffe
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 12:19 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Alternatives (was Re: whois broke again?)
William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Some private messages have said that NSI claims the whois contact
> information is now their "property".
Not only. NSI has said publicly that this is the case. As does the data
they return with each whois result :-)
