On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:23 am, Peter Hansen wrote: > Jack Diederich wrote: > > The '.info' domain also defeats > > the linux 'whois' command to dig for registrar info. > > Maybe so, but it's always pretty easy to Google for "whois" plus the > domain to find a way of doing it via the web, in this case with > http://www.afilias.info/cgi-bin/whois.cgi . > > (It's registered to something called the Institute of Pamela, which > seems to stand for "Peaceful Alliances facilitated by Multilingual, > multiracial Education, handicapable outreach and native Language > Accessibility". I think this thing really exists, making this spam and > not just a farce.)
Although there is something ironic about an organization that wants to establish world peace through education and communication without bothering to pay attention to netiquette. Seems like that would've been an obvious first step in making peace on Usenet, anyway. ;-) -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
