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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois


From: "Michael L. Barrow" <mlbarrow () eni net>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:28:55 -0700

Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others
serve up the data?

Because the bad people will be able to do arbitrary searches on the data
to spam and figure out what domains have been removed. You know,
generally make our lives more difficult! =)

-- 
Michael L. Barrow * <mlbarrow () eni net> * Network Engineer
Epoch Internet    * DSL Engineering    * (949) 399-8413


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