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----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannigan, Martin" <[email protected]> To: "Paul G" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:17 AM Subject: RE: High volume WHOIS queries >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of >> Paul G >> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries --- snip --- >> point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of >> attempting to harvest >> the data and an open to the public whois server with no >> access restrictions >> would defeat that. > I don't know that this is the case, I suspect it's > resource management. If the database is getting > slaughtered by applications on uncontrolled auto pilot, > it's unusable for the rest of us. well, the OP quoted a portion of the aup that requires bulk whois data recipients to take measures to prevent harvesting, so i presume that arin does care about that and, in fact, that consideration is likely the reason they declined to permit the OP to run *his own* whoisd off of his *local* copy of the data. -p --- paul galynin
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