too many hits?

>So, no it's not an error or indexing problem. It is an design issue.
>Changing this behavior can be done but might cause other unwanted effects
>for people (or tools) that make use of this feature that look for more
>objects at the same time.

    Dear David,
    
    if this is a design issue why doesn't give 
    
    whois -h whois.ripe.net "panigl woeber"
    
    a result ?  Both are valid person objects !  Or do I need a special
    whois client for this multi-object behaviour ?
    
    If it is a design issue (restricted by some DBM implementation) could
    you then please give us a hint how to specify in a whois query, that
    "Stefan Anders" isn't meant as multi-object but as single-object lookup
    (perhaps there is or could be a switch for running such a request in
    slow-mode without using the incomplete index) ?
    
    Daniel's suggestion "Please use handles" is nice but should we now go
    into querying for "SAn-RIPE" (for n=1..10000) and collect all "Stefan
    Anders" out of the result if we don't know the handle for a given 
    person ?  Doesn't sound very healthy ...
    
    Kind regards
    Christian
    
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