An account of the creation of finger by its creator. It's a little more put-together than the netnews quote that was posted yesterday. One anecdote: One issue

An account of the creation of finger by its creator. It's a little more put-together than the netnews quote that was posted yesterday. One anecdote: One issue that arose at SAIL, for example, was that Prof. Donald Knuth, who had become well known because of his authorship of a series of textbooks on The Art of Computer Programming, used SAIL as his primary computer and Finger showed everyone when he was online and revealed his login ID (DEK), which could be used to send him email, with the result that he started receiving a lot of unwanted inquiries. We fixed that by giving him a private pseudonymous email address while continuing to show his real login ID in Finger.