13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
11:44 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Adam Goldman wrote:
It's not so much that the executables are still missing, it's that
people no longer run fingerd and talkd.
Local finger and talk aren't nearly as useful.
Peace... Sridhar
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. ;)