[db-wg] Re: abuse-c: proposal

> Comments in context below ...

sad times you have to announce that ...

> [ Hmm.. look at those victims! Must try to spread the load even wider! 
> 8-) ]

Unfortunately this is sometimes indeed the strategy. So nothing would change.

> We aim to make it easy for everyone; the following should be nearly 
> enough.
> 
> 	whois -h whois.ripe.net 137.43.0.0 | \
> 		awk '/^abuse-mailbox:/ {print $2}'

So, why do you believe "they"'re going to change their attitude? First of
all this ssemms to be an issue of the presentation format. One could have
a cleaner db design with abuse-c-handle and still show it in the form
suggested above.

An even easier solution would be a dedicated server:

	whois -h abuse.ripe.net 137.43.0.0

	-> abuse at ucd.ie

I'm not too sure whose alleged requirements should be satisfied here:

o clueful users
o clueless operators
o clueful bot writers
o clueful and cooperative bot writers
o clueful and not cooperative bot writers
o [...]

-Peter