From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 14:59:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD34337B506 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25150; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:59:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821155826.05bae100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:59:27 -0600 To: "Nicole Harrington." , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FIngering freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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