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- From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
- Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:02:06 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes:
-
- >OK, I'd like the next version of Horton to be socially correct ;-)
- >Would it suffice to send a mail message to postmaster@foo, with an offer to
- >exclude foo from polling, before beginning to gather information from foo?
-
- Yes, I think that would be fine. Apart from anything else, it probably alerts
- fellow sysops to the local interest, and might do some 'conciousness raising'
- as well. Gosh... not only socially correct but politically correct as well.
- what a warm fuzzy glow.
-
- -George
-
- One idea which I have implemented on a box here, but which might impact
- on horton if deployed widely, is to replace fingerd by a paranoid shell
- script as follows:
-
- (this came from Randall Atkinson, who I hope will excuse me for posting
- in news an instance of his e-mailed suggestion)
-
-
- #!/bin/sh
- trap "exit 0;" 0 1 2 13 15
- #
- # the text isn't real, but gives a feel for the idea
- #
- /bin/cat << burflydick
-
- This host does not directly support finger.
-
- If you require further information about our
- services, or have a problem to discuss please
- contact:
-
- postmaster@xx.xx.xx.xx
- Tel: zz zzz zzzz
- Fax: yy yyy yyyy
- burflydick
- #
- # small pause for anyone who moves their lips when they read
- #
- sleep 2
- #
- exit 0
- #
-
-
- This provides minimal onward assistance so in the case of dire emergency
- somebody can proceed. I put it onto the box which is doing our mailhub and
- newshub work, which I particularly didn't want to be blasted by random
- finger requests.
-
- The problem with this approach is that said boxen will also usually look
- like the appropriate place to finger if you're doing some heuristics on
- mail and news addresses or routing.
-
- -George
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- George Michaelson
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