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From: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,alt.flame
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <12945@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 88 03:58:33 GMT
Reply-To: cdaf@iuvax.UUCP (Charles Daffinger)
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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To the 'rn' question 

'Are you sure you really want to do this? [ny]'

I ought to really ansower `n', but what the hell.....

People are bitching and moaning about the lack of a real user name given 
in the news postings from Portal.com, but, I seem to be confused here,
as most people (including those who have participated in the form-flame)
are using Unix, many even BSD unix or it's variants.  Well, there is a
unix command called 'chfn' which changes the 'finger' entry for the user,
which is also the name which appears in article attributions.  What difference
is there to Unix 'chfn' to the Portal whatever it is which allows arbitrary
name selection?


Confused,

-charles




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