From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 27 4:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BFF37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA67456; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:44:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Terry Lambert Cc: adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the ??ck! References: <200010270847.BAA25973@usr09.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 Oct 2000 13:44:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:47:25 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message