Speaking of sig lines, who remembers .plan files?

[Rabrrrrrr]

I do!

[dsewell]

1. $ echo 'World domination!' > .plan; finger myself

Me too!

Oh, and Kibo for President.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Yeah man.... Kibo all the way... and join the Church of the

Subgenius or Bob will get ya.
I am not sure, but I think my unix shell still has a .plan file.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I haven't even thought of .plan in a long time

When was the last time I fingered someone? Maybe 1997?

I just now tried fingering some, and they're all coming back "refused" or "timed out".

Sad.

I miss the old days when the people on the internet knew unix and understood computers. Don't get me wrong - I love th ease of use of the Internet now, and web, and the high bandwidth and the shopping and all that, but I just miss back when people actualy understood what the hell they were doing, and what they were using.

And get rid of that &*@*^$#*^$ HTML email! Or make people take a Federally Authorized course on using it before they're allowed. Dammit, that makes me mad.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. Most hosts have turned finger off, there was some kind of

security hole in it, in, I think BSD a few years ago. But since most people do not acutally even know they have a unix shell anymore, it is kind of pointless for the most part.
Yes, the net has changed a lot, and will again, I believe.

[dsewell]

6. Oh, what the heck, try this:

finger [e-mail]

They have secure finger daemons now, but they're not much used.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. I love it...

$ finger [e-mail] Login: drs2n
Name:D.S. Project: Restoring honor and dignity to the Unix finger program. Plan: To amuse the Democratic Underground. No public key.

[ant]

4. have they gone away?

Having left the world of academic research I don't use unix anymore - god how I miss it - but as recently as two years ago I was still seeing funny .plan files and, uh, fingering people. (Yes, it still makes me giggle...)

And I may very well be the only 28 year old on earth who can program only in Fortran. I might remember some Apple Basic, though...