3 September 1998: Many visitors to the usenet-addresses.mit.edu web site sometimes also make use of the InterNIC whois service (whois.internic.net) to obtain directory information. InterNIC released a bulletin on 1 September 1998 describing some planned changes to its whois service to increase performance.
In general, whois is a type of directory service and is described on this site's Local Directory Services information page. Please note that the InterNIC whois service is not in any way affiliated with the usenet-addresses.mit.edu web site, and the performance changes made by InterNIC will not affect the performance of usenet-addresses.mit.edu itself.