There are two replies to this: 1) Whois is a separate protocol, which has priority over inclusion of the data in http; 2) The disclaimer could be reduced in size (to something people would actually read)
Marc On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, at 11:06 [=GMT-0500], Charles Daminato wrote: > There are two ways we can output the whois > > 1) Disclaimer before output > 2) Output before disclaimer (as we have it now) > > If we switch to 1), anyone using web clients will complain they > have to scroll down to get the information they want. We can't > please everyone ;) > > Charles Daminato > TUCOWS Product Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, at 09:56 [=GMT-0800], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Almost every registrar puts the disclaimers before the record, which > > > > makes sense if you want to abide by it (it's a bit late reading the > > > > disclaimer AFTER you've read the record). > > > > > > It's a bit late no matter were it's at if it's displayed along *with* the > > > actual WHOIS information since you can't stop a WHOIS response in > > > midstream... :) > > > > Ctrl-C comes to mind. If you do whois on the command line. I do, and I > > 'hate' this disclamer stuff, because it drives the info I am looking for > > off the screen. I know how to solve that, but it is extra 'work'. So, > > please, OpenSRS, start with the disclaimer! > > > > >
