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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



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