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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois

  • From: Michael L. Barrow
  • Date: Wed Sep 02 11:38:20 1998 
> Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others
> serve up the data?

Because the bad people will be able to do arbitrary searches on the data
to spam and figure out what domains have been removed. You know,
generally make our lives more difficult! =)

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Michael L. Barrow * <[email protected]> * Network Engineer
Epoch Internet    * DSL Engineering    * (949) 399-8413