Re: kernel.org finger service

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:12:38 +0100, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> > 
> > hmm, probably everybody knows and there is a good 
> > reason for it, but just for the unlikely case, that 
> > it did went unnoticed ...
> > 
> > the finger services at kernel.org does not return
> > useful information atm.
> 
> >From the main page at http://www.kernel.org:
> 
> August 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of automatic
> monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is causing the
> finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same information is
> available from http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner.

hey, I'm no automaton, I'm still a human 8-)

best,
Herbert

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