-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear colleagues, James A. T. Rice wrote:
I'm probably posting far too late about this, but:
well, I had to sleep over the latest changes as well :-)
Much as I agree that the default removal of email addresses from the whois output is a good idea, the lack of a changed: field is very annoying.
Its always good to know how out of date an object is - and one of the key parameters I've used to decide if the details in an object are likely to be correct (i.e. are they actively maintained).
What I think is more annoying is to use a different query when updating/deleting objects in the DB. Nevertheless I understand the aim of the change and I definitly *do* support the effort to lead people to more meaningful abuse addresses, but it makes the LIR's daily business more difficult. And, beside that, I guess that when the -B switch becomes known to the public the previous behaviour will take place again and complaints will be send to all addresses again. Especially when some abuse mailboxes don't handle complaints in the desired way. But I'm afraid there's no way between the two options... Regards: Tobias - -- Tobias Cremer M.A. IP Admin Engineer Cable & Wireless Telecommunication Services GmbH Landsbergerstr. 155 80687 Muenchen Germany Tel +49 89 926 99 0 -- FAX +49 89 926 99 180 -- COMNET 7 49 9169 www.cw.com/de - -- Every message GnuPG signed -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCgdGEhC6y11CNwvcRAkiRAKDASZzoQbX8i2PCdbWbbQMGAglCWgCg1oFE mZwxlV73MFDA5WZe0KwBkaU= =w6zR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----