Oh, please! I get enough spam without making it easier for the bastards to parse WHOIS.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:42:55 +0100, Csongor Fagyal wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>�I've sucessfully written a Whois Parser which I maintain to this day >>�.... Thanks to all the idiot spammers who mine Whois for email >>�addresses I have found the following, >> >>�1) To make Whois Parsing very difficult Several registrars dynamically >>�change, >> >>�a) the Whois field prefixes b) the order that Whois sections appear >>�(tech first one time then reg the next time) >>�c) the actual formating of a fields contents (!) >> >>�2) Several registrars will temporarily block your IP after just a very >>�few Whois accesses. >>�So, from experiance, I can say writing a Whois parser these days is >>�*VERY* difficult! > >I say it's the 21st century, and you cannot get XML WHOIS output. That's >just nonsense. > >- Cs.
