More backround: Interesting problem.

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:59:28PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
...
> 	Which was exactly the point I was making, and was precisely the
> information the poster needed. My first sentence was the controlling point,
> and based on the original post I felt that pointing the gentleman in the
> right direction without spelling out every nauseating detail of the
> situation would be sufficient, and guess what, I was right. 

Then you should have said that.  Instead, what you said made it sound
like checking WHOIS gave information on DNS.  It doesn't.

While I realize you meant well, people don't know what you're thinking
- only what you wrote.  It's possible that I missed a word somewhere
that explained what you meant.  If I missed it, others who don't know
hte difference would, too.  There has been a recent spate of postings
that suggest that WHOIS and DNS are somehow the same database, and this
would only fuel it.  Any discussions of WHOIS in this mailing list
should make the difference extremely clear.  This mailing list has
nothing to do with WHOIS.  And everything to do with DNS.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support					EMT-B
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