Richard J. Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What a perfect oppertunity for an entrepeneur to offer such a service.
Ok, I'll bite, Richard. How would you imagine someone might build a business
to provide access to data which is not acquirable?
My longest standing argument with the manner in which Internic has been so
grotesquely mismanaged is that the data it holds is public, by virtue of its
amassing using public funds, and yet, it is impossible to purchase, beg,
borrow, cajole, or otherwise acquire a copy of it in any form other than to
harvest it online, one record at a time, through servers which are already
woefully inadequate to the task.
Now NetSol has decided that a portion of the information is not to be
publically accessible on a per-record basis. Criminal.
As a taxpayer, I call for an immediate release of the Internic Whois database
into the public domain and that it be made available to any and all via ftp
download.
--
Rob Raisch, Internet Hired Gun <http://www.raisch.com/>
How close is the kinship between a man and the whole human race,
for it is a community, not of a little blood or seed, but of
intelligence. --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Book XII)
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