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Started by Chris Siebenmann
Thu, 24 Sep 1992 08:54
Re: whois server in Canada?
Author: Chris Siebenmann
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 08:54
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 08:54
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demco@cs.ubc.ca (John Demco) writes:
| I wonder if implementing "whois" would be worthwhile. Personally I
| would rather use a comprehensive distributed directory service.
While a nice comprehensive distributed directory service would
be nice, we don't have one. In the meantime, whois does pretty
well, and certainly beats grepping data from strange places, and
just about everyone has it.
Having whois today would be nice; we can always replace it next
week with a better solution.
--
"This is what separates us system programmers from the
application programmers: we can ruin an entire machine and
then recover it, they can only ruin their own files and then
get someone else to restore them" - Geoff Collyer
cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks
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