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Re: finger url, copyright caches (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Wade)
Wed Aug 24 10:31:54 1994
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 16:22:04 +0200
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From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
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>Is the finger URL really even needed, except for ease of use? It
>seems to me a 10 line perl CGI script would take care of it with a
>calling of . <a href = "http:/cgi-bin/finger?[name@university.edu]">
>
>-grumpy-old-nickg
Is it _really_ needed? No, but for a different reason. I wanted
this for end users who want to have pointers to finger servers.
Setting up more servers (finger gateways) is anti-scalable and
doubles the load on the net. I'd much prefer the gopher hack to
that.
But yes, ease of use is the only actual reason for it.
-reed
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