I guess we're all just really unused to having changes made this way, unilaterally, without consideration of the consequences on OpenSRS' customers. I'd never have expected OpenSRS to make the unannounced format changes it has over the last week or two, given that so many people rely on some level of consistency from them.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:09:51PM -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > > A customer just wrote and told us our BW Whois has also has quit working > with OpenSRS's changes. We are going to stop offering who-is lookups I > guess as we have enough to do with out these changes. Here's what I'm now using to clean whois output: # whois $what | sed -Ene '/^The [dD]ata in /,/(modify|abide by) th/d;/(modify|abide by) th/d;/^(pol|NO|RE)/d;/./,/^$/p' Ugly, but it strips fine print from Verisign, Register.com and Tucows, and maybe others. Has the added benefit of compacting multiple blank lines into single ones, for easier reading (esp. on 80x25 terminals). -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
