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From: thg@kama.ESD.3Com.COM (Thomas Guenther)
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Subject: Finger
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Date: 10 May 91 04:38:19 GMT
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Any ideas on why, when I use 'finger' on anyone in my own company,
it works fine, but when I try to 'finger' anyone outside the company
it won't do it?  The message I get is something like the following.
If I were to finger joeuser@companyb.com I would immediately get the response:

[companyb.com] connect:  Network is unreachable.

Any clues as to how I would go about fingering this 
unreachable joeuser?  I have no trouble emailing, only when using
'finger'.  Thanks.

Tom
thg@kama.dev.3com.com