Mr. "List Mail User", your efforts in this respect are ridiculous, now your are resurrecting long dead bodies. I can't believe that you read this document and still believe it could have any relevance to this. Wow.
1. this is what rfc-editor.org says about 954: RFC0954 NICNAME/WHOIS K. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler October 1985 ASCII Obsoletes RFC812, Obsoleted by RFC3912 DRAFT STANDARD That's pretty clear, isn't? It's obsoleted. 2. Be it obsoleted or not, there is nothing in that document that puts whois.denic.de in violation of it. I really suggest you ask someone to explain it to you. Maybe you are reading a different document, I use this one: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc954.txt Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com