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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave
  3. From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
  4. Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.231756.469@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
  6. Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
  7. Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
  8. References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> <1992Aug17.171935.23127@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <51y1Hzgm!8@atlantis.psu.edu>
  9. Distribution: usa
  10. Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:17:56 GMT
  11. Lines: 17
  12.  
  13. barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
  14. >Instead I would suggest that all programs who insist on doing reverse
  15. >fingering be immediately purged from all systems, and their authors
  16. >strung up by their genitals.
  17.  
  18. Why so hostile?
  19.  
  20. >Ack, why do people insist on using such hacks?
  21.  
  22. Because they work sometimes. More often than finding someone fingering
  23. you from a machine running RFC931...
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
  27. dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov       dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov         ...usc!elroy!dxh
  28.  
  29. Test  (n.)   - 1. A hardship you don't expect.
  30. Brave (adj.) - 1. Someone looking for a test.
  31.