Re: small vent

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Tim Salo wrote:

> Why can't the registry folks get their collective act together and provide
> users with a system that allows a simple request like "whois name" to
> find the appropriate [piece] of the database.

Why can't the ISPs get their act together and use a whois client that
allows a simple request like "whois name" to find the appropriate
database? This is simple enough that it could be done with a PERL script
frontend to the regular whois client and as an added bonus it could lookup
info in the country-code TLD databases as well.

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