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Re: Netscape && FTP sites

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dana Hudes)
Wed Mar 13 19:49:46 1996

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:33:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Dana Hudes <dhudes@panix.com>
To: Gene Ingram <gene@hpfsvr01.cup.hp.com>
cc: "Seth I. Rich" <seth@hygnet.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <31470919.1B6D@cup.hp.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

finger does not work on machines behind a firewall, not all sites support 
finger etc.

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Gene Ingram wrote:
> (Just got the idea why can't ftp sites also
> finger email addressed given to see if it's valid before allowing anonymous
> access, sorry to think out loud..)
> 
> -- 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
> Gene Ingram                                  gene@cup.hp.com
>                                      ingram@pubs.holosys.com
> 

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