To try the gateway, simply enter as a keyword an address of
the form user@hostname. The gateway can also be used
non-interactively by anchoring to a URL of the form:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/finger/hostname/username/w
The last two components are optional; the /w provides
more verbose output as per RFC 1288,
but exactly what will happen is obviously server-dependent.
This gateway was written and is maintained by Marc VanHeyningen. The faces support is possible due to the picons curator, Steve Kinzler.
People who are not really involved but who make nice demo links include Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, John Perry Barlow, Howard Rheingold and our own Douglas Hofstadter, or maybe somebody even more famous.
Information and sources for faces/picons are available. If you or your organization does not have a picon image, you may submit one.
If you have problems, please check to see whether the address in question can be fingered directly before reporting a problem in the gateway. Sometimes the finger server at site somebody.org will time out; if so, the gateway can't really do much other than return that timeout to the user (along with, at least, the faces information.)
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