Ripe change to whois

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 02:17:54PM +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:

Hi Joao,

> If you still feel that "This needs to be rectified" you can discuss this with 
> the community, although it would have been better to discuss all this when the 
> design was proposed instead of going around the loop again (which, of course, 
> we'll do if users want to).

I'm not sure what needs to be 'rectified'. But if you silently change
the semantics of a public database more than a year after a discussion
that wasn't attended by its current users, then you shouldn't wonder
about complaints.

But complaining alone doesn't achieve anything. As it appears
the database lacks the feature of an exact-match query and I
kindly propose to add such a feature.


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