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- 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
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- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
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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 using finger as a billboard? It's great for
- going-on-vacation notices, new-phone-number notices, etc.
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