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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:20:33 +0100
From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: port of ripe's extended whois client.
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On Wed, Jun 18, 1997 at 09:06:12PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> > The bloat is about 4k!  The ripe version is fully compatible with the
> > shipped one with one exception.  It queries whois.ripe.net as default
> > instead of whois.internic.net.
> 
> This should be easy enough to change.  While changing it, why not
> picking it up from the environmental varialbe WHOIS_SERVER, defaulting
> to the Internic?  OTOH, i'm in the RIPE realm, but very often use
> whois to spot at spammers and such, and since the US is still far off
> in as a spam-provider compared to Europe, most of the time i indeed
> want to lookup Internic, not RIPE.
> 
> By all means, import it into the main tree, rather than having a
> duplicated effort in the ports.
> 

Ok, I'll sort this out.  Who do I speak to to get it imported into the
main tree?  (I've not got by priviledges yet.)

Joe
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Josef Karthauser        
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