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It
is because so much information can be found out about online
connections using finger, that many ISP's disable this service
to provide more privacy for their users.
If you find an ISP that allows finger to be used, the following
information can be found.
Finger displays the user's login name, real name, terminal
name and write status (as a "*" after the terminal
name if write permission is denied), idle time, login time,
office location and office phone number.
Mail
status is shown as "No Mail" if there is no mail
at all, You will see "Mail last read" and then
provide the date and time. If the person has looked at their
mailbox since new mail arriving, or you will see "New
mail received ..." and then Unread since ...''
Other
options would be when this person last read his e-mail,
and if he is online right now.
The
finger to the host will display all users online on the
individual ISP machine right now.
In the example above, "gnu.org" is the host. To
do a finger to the host, you will need an "@"
symbol in front of the host name as shown above.
When the result is returned, you will have a list of all
of the users at that host that are logged in right now.
You can copy and paste a user name in front of the @ symbol
for more information about that particular user as shown
below for the user natalejm.
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