[93757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: today's Wash Post Business section
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Dec 21 07:05:18 2006
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:04:22 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200612211159.kBLBxLZK012941@s25.firmware.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Yes, Mac OSX has a whois client in Network Utility, but it's crap.
On 12/21/06, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>
> > From owner-nanog@merit.edu Wed Dec 20 21:49:49 2006
> > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0500
> > Subject: Re: today's Wash Post Business section
> >
> >
> > At 19:31 -0800 12/20/06, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> > >Many people don't understand anything about how they access the Internet, they
> > >have a vague idea that they need to type a domain name into a box somewhere...
> > >so they type www.myspace.com into the Google search box, the result set pops
> > >up, and then they click on the first result to get to the web site in
> > >question... I've seen it more than once.
> > >
> > >Thomas
> >
> > Yeah, granted anyone looking for myspace might meet that demographic,
> > but how many neophytes would use Google for a "IP Who Is" "search"?
> > That's the listing I thought odd.
>
> Does MS-Windows come with a 'whois' client?
> Does MacOS come with a 'whois' client?
>
> How many people have a search engine as their 'home page' in their web
> browser?
>
> How many end-user types _don't_know_ about anything other than a web-browser/
> mail-client for Internet access?
>
>
> With the 'forced education' most people get with regard to spam recieved in
> their mailbox, it's not suprising that the masses are using the tools they
> 'know how to use' to check up on things.
>
>
>
