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Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP 
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  From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
  Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP
  > It seems that Andrew Foster said:
  > > And yet the old finger works fine, as does fingering from most other host
>>s
  > > I've tried.
  > 
  > Finger has been changed (or fixed :-)) to use T/TCP recently...
  
  "Fixed" is subjective.  It saves one response packet and loses
  interoperability.  8-(.

It interoperates fine with non-broken TCP implementations.  I'm really glad
that finger was chosen... of course, it should have been DOCUMENTED. :-)