Re: IP: You Can Surf, but You Can't Hide

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:20:06 -0800
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Einar Stefferud <stef () nma com>
>
>
> Hi Dave:   Maybe it is time to dredge up the MsgGroup Flame Fest of 1979 
> that  was triggered when you linked the CMU Flame Fest regarding the 
> default settings of the Finger Command into the Global MsgGroup discussion.
>
> Here is the header of your intro message (MSGGROUP# 794)
> in <http://www.tcm.org/msggroup> in the file for Msgs# 701-800.
> The Flame Fest lasted for several hundred messages as it gradually
> faded out.  The issues ranged over the full extent of rights to
> know where other people are and rights to be shielded from other
> people's knowing where you are, etc, et al...
>
> It was some time before this flame fest that I turned off "linking"
> (the earliest version of IM) on my TOPS-10 ARPANET user account  so
> as to not be bothered by other users jumping into the middle of my
> work on a TI-735!
>
> I have never had any interest in IM since then;-)...
> If you want my attention, just send me a regular message;-)...
>
> On the other hand, some years before that, I had met our good friend Ole 
> Jacobsen through a link, when he was a High School Student in Norway and 
> saw my Norwegian name with Finger while logged in on SRI-KA while he was 
> working at some Norwegian Defense establishment. I still have the TI 
> Terminal printout of our "meeting" somewhere in a file folder.
>
> I have been wondering how long it would take for that CMU discussion to 
> repeat itself.  I suppose it belongs in the Computer Museum;-)...
>
> Cheers...\Stef
>
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> 23-FEB-79 22:59:18-PST,11166;000000000001
> Mail-from: USC-ISI rcvd at 23-FEB-79 0547-PST
> Date: 23 FEB 1979 0547-PST
> Sender: FARBER at USC-ISI
> Subject: MSGGROUP# 794  The CMU Finger program and privacy ...
> Subject:                 an interesting set of messages
> Subject: [The Finger at CMU-10A (F100TF00): Finger and Privacy]
> From: FARBER at USC-ISI
> To: [ISI]<MsgGroup>Mailing.List;177:
> Message-ID: <[USC-ISI]23-FEB-79 05:47:22.FARBER>
>
> When I first saw this set of messages I felt they were of strong
> interest to the message group community and asked that they be
> "desensitized" by removing certain names and internal refernces.
>
> Dave
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