On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:19:51PM +0200, Denis Walker wrote:
* > The anti-spam WG is preparing a broad proposal, but one early thought * > is to provide different database views for the different classes of * > user. Casual users looking for contact information in the default * > output are an important class, probably not the most well-informed or * > patient, and it may be worth suppressing "changed:" in the view they * > get. This applies whatever decisions we make about the internal * > behaviour or the way LIRs will use the attribute. * * That seems like a good idea. Many casual users of the RIPE database do * not query it directly, rather through a small number of web-based * gateways. Would it be worth asking the owners of those gateways * to filter out the changed field now, to see what effect that has?
But then someone will realise the changed lines are missing and think we are hiding something. So they will write a tool to show them and give them even more significance.
Nah. You're presuming far too much understanding of the black magic that runs everything on the part of the typical casual user, I think. It would be trivial to have samspade.org do this, and probably combat.uxn.com too, which I suspect are the two biggest web gateways. Cheers, Steve