Re: [ga] something for the WHOIS committee?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Rick and all assembly members,

  Danny amongst a host of others are a bit less then technically
qualified over The Whois and port assignments.  Unfortunately
Danny in this instance sort of showed that lack of expertise or
otherwise knowledge base...  Live and learn I suppose...

Rick Wesson wrote:

> > 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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