>> of course, that's separate from the suggestion of using better databases etc. >> > > as long as we all know about sources' importance, i think the use of > better sources for determining request locations is of principal > matter since, for example, the actual scheme is so non-optimal that it > was denying access to me (and who knows who else) while allowing for > other people on the same country.
that's true (which is why i said the databases etc was another matter). on the other hand, even there, the whois stuff seemed to be working for many years, so perhaps it's just a matter of accommodating the cases that have recently gone wrong.
