{"id":52,"date":"2009-04-10T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/stupidity-at-evanzo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:39","slug":"stupidity-at-evanzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/stupidity-at-evanzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidity at Evanzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Evanzo,<\/p>\n<p>the contact emails in the whois records for the domains you manage are there for a purpose: If there are troubles with these domains, the responsible people can be contacted in order to get the problems fixed.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a good reason these whois data is not just a blob of Ascii, but structured data: Scripts can parse the records and e.g. automatically send email to the right address.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back autoreplies stating basically &#8220;please use this web-form&#8221; is not going to cut it. We will not special-case our scripts to fill out web-forms just to accommodate your setup.<\/p>\n<p>You, and your customers will simply not get our Mails regarding defaced Websites hosted by your service.<\/p>\n<p>Your decision, your loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Evanzo, the contact emails in the whois records for the domains you manage are there for a purpose: If there are troubles with these domains, the responsible people can be contacted in order to get the problems fixed. And there is a good reason these whois data is not just a blob of Ascii, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}