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            _/ ____\__| ____    ____   ___________

            \   __\|  |/    \  / ___\_/ __ \_  __ \

             |  |  |  |   |  \/ /_/  >  ___/|  | \/

             |__|  |__|___|  /\___  / \___  >__|

                           \//_____/      \/

The 'finger'  command is used  to get information about  a specific

user on a local or remote  system. Things like full name, telephone

number and email address.

It  also normally  displays  the contents  of  the '.projects'  and

'.plan' files in the users directory.  The user can put anything he

wants  into this  files. Sometimes  it contains  useful information

about the user's activity, serves as a kind of microblogging or all

manner of humor.

<== My finger service ==>

I've set up a finger service on my server with my own scripts which

provide all kinds of information.

Available fingers and system info:

Actual info about me (/now):

My latest Mastodon/ActivityPub posts:

My latest gemlog post:

My latest gopher phlog post:

Weather condition at my location:

<== Your own finger ==>

I would like to see more people using their finger service. Most of

the pubnixes and tildes have some  kind of finger service set up on

their system.  In fact  it's more  and more  common in  the smolnet

community to have a finger address.

For example I use my personal finger address as a kind of /now page

where I put  in what I'm currently  doing in the mid  term. But you

can put anything you want in it.

<== Join epochs finger ring ==>

You can make  updates to your finger address public  by joining the

finger ring. You can get information how to join it here: