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Article #156Re: unhappy about overloading finger
From: Tom Fitzgerald
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:17
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:17
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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 using finger as a billboard? It's great for going-on-vacation notices, new-phone-number notices, etc. -- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com "I went to the universe today; 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA It was closed...."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!decwrl!bu.edu!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger Message-ID: <brtfh6.jix@wang.com> Date: 23 Jul 92 00:17:27 GMT References: <ggm.711690458@brolga> <CKD.92Jul21010148@loiosh.eff.org> <19107@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@wang.com Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 13