[9488] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Jan 6 21:25:13 1994
To: koreth@hyperion.com (Steven Grimm)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: [9484] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 94 21:24:24 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> That's way too strong. It would prevent me from fingering you to see if
>> you were logged on so I could "talk" you to ask a question, for instance,
>> since you wouldn't have given me prior permission to check your login
>> status. Aside from being unfriendly, such a policy would be really tough
>> to enforce or even implement.
Consider that it is not uncommon for a site to block all incoming TCP
connections, including finger.
So, given a policy like Donald's, put a small "allowable uses" list in
the finger output. Maybe ISOC or someone else puts together a short
document on "allowable uses of information obtained via finger", and
makes it available by anonymous ftp, and you just add a disclaimer to
your finger output like like
This information may only be used as described in the
ISOC Finger Information Usage Policy version x.y or later.
Of course, this statment should be lawyer-approved. And, of course,
it would need teeth.
Marc
