From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Adam Goldman wrote:
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.
He said "exist on the Internet". As someone who looks at such things for a
living, he's right for all practical purposes.
N.B. - "Practical purposes" means something more than "a couple of
cc'ers
doing it for nostalgia".