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Article #148Re: unhappy about overloading finger
From: Gene Spafford
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:24
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:24
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In article <1992Jul21.210740.22162@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) writes: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes: >Finger can be replaced with something else, say, a simple Perl script. >You might have something that prints out an appropriate message and >then exits. This means you can keep from printing user .plan files, >thus cutting down on their attempts to use it as a "billboard". What's wrong with this? Why is this bad? It's not necessarily bad. It might be against site policy, however. If users wish to advertise something to the world at large, perhaps there are better ways of doing it...like using Usenet. -- Gene Spafford Software Engineering Research Center & Dept. of Computer Sciences Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-1398 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu phone: (317) 494-7825
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger Message-ID: <19111@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 22 Jul 92 02:24:12 GMT References: <ggm.711690458@brolga> <CKD.92Jul21010148@loiosh.eff.org> <19107@ector.cs.purdue.edu> <1992Jul21.210740.22162@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 19