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Re:Sunsetting Whois by technopol on Monday March 17, 2025 @06:22AM (#43386848)
I’m serious! I don’t know why we’re turning a fundamental command off, even if it didn’t work correctly for everything. Do you realize how much documentation and how many tools reference it? And it still can work.
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Re:Sunsetting Whois by qb_dp on Monday March 17, 2025 @08:00AM (#43387569)
shocking news indeed.

Major regression. How can we trust the internet now ?

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Re:Sunsetting Whois by Aachen on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:13AM (#43388240)
I think people know you're serious (I'm not one of the downvoters), but that it seems silly to stop all innovation for the sake of legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification is a big enough problem that we're being taught about this in school so that we're aware of the problem and maybe things get better in the future

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