ripedenis@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
After the introduction of "abuse-c", the "abuse-mailbox:" attribute in the PERSON, MNTNER, ORGANISATION and IRT objects was intended to be deprecated. This cleanup was never done and the old data causes confusion to users manually searching the database.
Add: After the introduction of "abuse-c", the "pn" shortcut did not get updated. Explanation: pn is a shortcut for "admin-c,tech-c,zone-c,author" in inverse queries. To find all references blocking the deletion of a person or role object I used to be able to query whois -r -i pn uk41-ripe Now I have to use whois -r -i abuse-c,pn uk41-ripe which is synonymous to whois -r -i abuse-c,admin-c,tech-c,zone-c,author uk41-ripe This should be easily fixable. Regards, -- Ulf Kieber