On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Adam Goldman wrote:
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.
If people of the "web browser generation" don't know enough to use
them (on the "other" end, I mean) then you probably don't want to
finger or talk to them anyway. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL