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- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.210740.22162@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
- References: <ggm.711690458@brolga> <CKD.92Jul21010148@loiosh.eff.org> <19107@ector.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:07:40 GMT
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- spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
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- >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".
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- What's wrong with this? Why is this bad?
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- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
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