Hiro Dudani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just finished writing my spam complaints for the last
> week - 85 mails in total. Anyway, I had to use whois a lot and
> now I wonder if it would be possible to add whois caching to
> WWWOFFLE.
>
> The protocol is very similar to finger, so IMVHO this shouldn't
> be very difficult to implement - "whois -h whois.thur.de
> demon.co.uk" would be mapped to
> /whois/whois.thur.de/demon.co.uk, for example.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Good idea, bad idea, or am I the only one
> who would ever use something like that?
Why not just use a dedicated spam reporting tool for this,
would save you a lot of time too.
Ricochet is a very good tool and it also keeps its own whois cache.
http://www.vipul.net/ricochet/
Regards,
Morten
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