At 02:17 PM 1/15/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Due to spammers" is an excuse, not a reason.This is a new trick that is gaining in popularity, of information based businesses, due to spammers.
Many whois servers (including whois.opensrs.net) prevent abuse by limiting the frequency of requests from a given address. Others use other techniques.
My whois client (see .sig below) sends away dozens of harvesters every day using simple techniques without throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Spam is an unfortunate reality, and we all hate it and some of us even fight it. But using its mere existence as a pretense for collecting more marketing data is beyond ironic. It's farcical and absurd.
--Bill
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Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/>
Music Database <http://www.webmusicdb.com/>
Music <http://music.bw.org/>
Whois Client <http://whois.bw.org>
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