There are two ways we can output the whois
1) Disclaimer before output
2) Output before disclaimer (as we have it now)
If we switch to 1), anyone using web clients will complain they
have to scroll down to get the information they want. We can't
please everyone ;)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, at 09:56 [=GMT-0800], bill@daze.net wrote:
>
> > > Almost every registrar puts the disclaimers before the record, which
> > > makes sense if you want to abide by it (it's a bit late reading the
> > > disclaimer AFTER you've read the record).
> >
> > It's a bit late no matter were it's at if it's displayed along *with* the
> > actual WHOIS information since you can't stop a WHOIS response in
> > midstream... :)
>
> Ctrl-C comes to mind. If you do whois on the command line. I do, and I
> 'hate' this disclamer stuff, because it drives the info I am looking for
> off the screen. I know how to solve that, but it is extra 'work'. So,
> please, OpenSRS, start with the disclaimer!
>
>
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