Re: unhappy about overloading finger

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:05

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ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
   To cover ourselves, we are increasingly using callback checks to
   have trace on who fingers us.

As long as you trust the other machine to tell you anything, why not
require that they use RFC 931 style authentication?

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Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
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