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Re:.plan by varenc on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:07PM (#29249208)
Fun Fact: MIT still runs a finger server at mit.edu (no subdomain!) that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessible, but now you need to make your request from within the MIT network to get a response.

You could also get the schedule for movies shown on campus with `finger @lsc.mit.edu`. That finger server is actually still running but looks like it's not being updated.

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Re:.plan by jedberg on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:13AM (#29249743)
> That finger server is actually still running but looks like it's not being updated.

Or maybe they don't have any events right now due to COVID...

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Re:.plan by varenc on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:33PM (#29257790)
Nope, I checked the LSC website and confirmed they are indeed showing movies! So it’s just that the finger server isn’t being updated: http://lsc.mit.edu/

(Note the HTTP link. The HTTPS cert is expired. But even if you bypass that warning I don’t think it’ll ever work due to other certificate errors. On almost all .mit.edu sites HTTPS is broken if you don’t have an affiliate client side very installed...)

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Re:.plan by air-wreck on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:13AM (#29252554)
Similarly, CMU's finger server is still publicly accessible, although almost no one except for professors in the CS department actually has a .plan file.
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Re:.plan by tibbon on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:49AM (#29253730)
LSC!
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