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Moderately functional whois

  • From: Mark Milhollan
  • Date: Sat Jun 27 22:34:04 1998 
Michael Dillon writes:
>On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>> handling it intelligently at the registry level which would require no
>> action on the part of the hundreds of thousands of machines out there. 

>I believe in distributed intelligence rather than making everyone rely on
>a single central point of failure. 

[They do anyway, but I agree there's no reason to compound the problem.]

How about a little of both ...

Oh yeah, that's rwhois.  Too bad its not getting much attention.