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- From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.141146.3209@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 14:11:46 GMT
- References: <brtfh6.jix@wang.com>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Organization: University of Bristol
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- In article <brtfh6.jix@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
- >What's wrong with using finger as a billboard? It's great for
- >going-on-vacation notices, new-phone-number notices, etc.
-
- Well, among other things, unless you've got a really good home burglar
- alarm, you might not want every random Fred in town to know that your
- home is going to be empty for the next 2 weeks because you're going to
- be off on vacation. Networking has grown to the point where it's
- probably not a good idea to put anything into your .plan file unless
- you'd also be happy to have it printed up on big posters and hung
- around downtown.
-
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