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kissg at sztaki.hu kissg at sztaki.hu
Mon Jun 8 14:52:50 CEST 1998

> > "Other users" are not really interested in the real e-mail address
> > of changer. This field is needed only by administrators who want to
> > delete the object because they have to send back the exact copy of
> > the record.
> 
> "Other users" are at least interested in the latest modification date
> and the address of someone to report problems to. When I find wrong
> information (mostly bouncing email addresses) in an entry I usually
> send a note to the address in the last "changed" line.

This means you are not "other user". :-)
Anybody who knows what the what is the changed field for is a guru.

Gurus can put an extra switch in the whois query to retrieve
the real list of changers.

regards

Gabor

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