Re: Whois on CDROM

[brandon () rd bbc co uk (BrandonButterworth)]

> They *were* planning to release the whois database on CDROM. That is,
> until the story got posted on http://slashdot.org and they got hit by the
> "Slashdot Effect".

Didn't stop the spam about it though, I got a few of these:-

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> From sammy () technotrade com Wed Sep 23 05:17:28 1998
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To: massmail_to_admins () technotrade com
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 98 21:13:51 EST
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