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- 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>
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- In article <1992Jul21.210740.22162@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) writes:
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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".
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- What's wrong with this? Why is this bad?
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- It's not necessarily bad. It might be against site policy, however.
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- If users wish to advertise something to the world at large, perhaps
- there are better ways of doing it...like using Usenet.
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- 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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