It was useful when the Internet was small, and all run by nerds who just wanted everything to work. In the mid-90s, the phone number in WHOIS was usually the gu

It was useful when the Internet was small, and all run by nerds who just wanted everything to work. In the mid-90s, the phone number in WHOIS was usually the guy who actually ran the servers. I called people when email auto-responders went awry and caused an email loop, or when ISP's DNS servers had old entries that shadowed web sites we hosted, or when I found a security hole.