[9491] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Inmac, junk mail, and the death of the net.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Thu Jan 6 22:13:37 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 20:12:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
Cc: crocker@tis.com, spike@coke.std.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9401062245.AA19096@psi.com>
On Thu, 6 Jan 1994, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> It occurs to me that an appropriate semi-technical solution to this
> problem is to have finger or fingerd put a copyright notice in its
> output barring redistribution or resale of the information.
>
> This allows the "normal" uses of finger (such as a phone directory
> substitute, or to find if your friend is logged in prior to initiating
> a "talk" link), but prohibits the kind of abuses folks here are
> complaining about.
>
> If you also borrow a trick from the mailing list vendors, and embed
> dummy names in the finger output to catch "cheaters", this might work
> fairly well...
GREAT ideas! Excellent alternative solutions, and not incompatible
with those I just posted!
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
