Re: [ga] something for the WHOIS committee?

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

> Isn't it at all possible for registrars to convert
> an email address into a GIF or JPEG format to thwart current automated mining
> practices?  It seems to me that everyone would appreciate that type of a
> service...

no, not over port 43 whois, there is no way to define a gif or jpeg over a
protocol whois bnf is simply reduced to .*\r\n

If you want to do engineering of the port 43 whois protocol and its
successors I suggest you review the relevant groups at
http://www.ietf.org.

-rick

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