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Finger URLs

Peter Lewis <[email protected]> writes in regard to fingering for earthquake information:

You can also just paste Finger URLs into Finger 1.5.0 [Peter’s Finger MacTCP-based Finger client], or, if you see them in a Usenet news posting that you’re reading with NewsWatcher, you can just Command-click the URL to pass the URL to Finger. A Finger URL looks like:

finger://[email protected]

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