From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265146AbUBORke (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:40:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265152AbUBORke (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:40:34 -0500 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:23965 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265146AbUBORkc (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:40:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:40:30 +0100 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.org finger service Message-ID: <20040215174030.GB22567@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040215001237.GB13839@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <200402151521.i1FFLtOA009594@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402151521.i1FFLtOA009594@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 01:12:38 +0100, Herbert Poetzl 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