Is this just a rumor?

Tue Aug 26 22:12:53 UTC 1997

Yeah, performance. :)

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Stan Barber wrote:

> Network Solutions' presentations at NANOG have stated that there is a 
> "limiting" agent in the whois server to prevent wholesale dumping of the 
> database.
> 
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