13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
11:53 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Adam Goldman wrote:
The issue's more that in today's security-paranoid atmosphere firewalls tend
to have everything apart from a few basic services (like HTTP and SMTP)
blocked. So the binaries are still there and reasonably widespread - you just
can't use 'em :(
Heck, it's scary how many IT admins don't even know that Usenet exists,
despite a news posting often being a far more efficient way of finding out
information than using the web.
The Internet used to have a number of useful
features that it no longer
does today -- for example, the finger and talk protocols. 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.