14 Mar
2007
14 Mar
'07
12:39 a.m.
On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
He said "exist on the Internet". As someone who looks at such
things for a living, he's right for all practical purposes.
They work just fine if they're enabled. As someone who runs such
things for a living, someone else's assertion that something "no
longer exists" simply because it is no longer as common as it once
was...well that's getting to be a bit annoying, and it's becoming
more and more common around here.
These protocols
no longer exist on the Internet, mostly due to valid security
reasons.
Hmm, that's an interesting assertion:
apophis$ which finger
/bin/finger
apophis$ which talk
/bin/talk
...looks to me like they're still there. N.B. - "Practical purposes" means something
more than "a couple of
cc'ers doing it for nostalgia".
I do it to communicate with my coworkers. Pretty much every day,
I might add, and nostalgia has nothing to do with it.
Man, the "blinders" are really bad around here lately.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL