Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:59:27 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIngering freebsd.org Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821155826.05bae100@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000821143536.nicole@unixgirl.com>
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At 03:35 PM 8/21/2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote: > Before I was able to finger a user at freebsd.org see if they were on > etc. Now >it seems that freebsd.org no longer has an IP and people.freebsd.org does not >allow fingering. Will this be allowed again? Alas, fingering allows address harvesting (and, hence, spamming). So it's not a good idea for the sysadmin to allow it -- except perhaps from the inside. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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