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Date:      27 Oct 2000 13:44:59 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What the ??ck!
Message-ID:  <xzpd7gm7bk4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:47:25 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <200010270847.BAA25973@usr09.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> No, it's not.  This is just NSIs way of punishing us for breaking
> up their monopoly, by fragmenting the whois service, so that when
> you complain, they can tell you how much better things were before
> their monopoly was compromised.

Reasonably recent FreeBSD versions have a modified whois(1) command
that automatically finds and queries the appropriate whois server, so
it's not really such a big issue.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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