On Jan 03, "Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet" <Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at> wrote:
Actually the 2nd step was discussed as changing the default behaviour of the commandline interface, too. The general feeling was that most queries by the walk-in customers would be run through the web interface anyway, and the NCC was reluctant to immediately change the interface which is probably used by scripts and programs... This was discussed only at a WG meeting and reversed the mailing list consensus which had been established a few weeks before. Since then I have asked NCC to provide statistical data instead of feelings but I have not seen any yet.
Again: NCC, can you please publish some statistics about distribution of clients strings? Pretty please? I would like to see separate tables for all queries and for "naked IP with no flags (except -V)" (which is the case we care about). Also, I still believe that the whois page should have a huge link to a tool like http://www.cert.pl/cgi-bin/ipdig.pl, which uses formal attributes and then some euristics to find the abuse contact for an IP (and does not display anything else). -- ciao, Marco