Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bywater!arnor!halley!metzger
From: metzger@watson.ibm.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: finger weather
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.182115.3531@watson.ibm.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:21:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr4.031506.6778@athena.mit.edu>
Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster)
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Lines: 11
Nntp-Posting-Host: halley

In article <1991Apr4.031506.6778@athena.mit.edu> caserta@athena.mit.edu (Francesco Caserta) writes:
>The Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
>provides the following service, and also unusual application of finger.
>Do you know of any other unusual application of finger?

The RFC for finger specifies fingers behavior when applied to coke
machines. It is my understanding that CMU used to have a coke machine
on the internet that followed the stated behavior, although this may
be an urban legend.

Perry Metzger