Re: what finger tags?

Marc VanHeyningen (mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu)
Fri, 9 Sep 1994 19:55:51 +0200

> What if finger gateways were sophisticated enough to wrap
> the various fields they return in specific tags? I mean, if you
> finger troth@is.rice.edu, you'll get (partially)
>
> Login name: troth In real life: Rick Troth
>
> and a typical finger-to-HTML gateway might wrap that in
>
> <pre>Login name: troth In real life: Rick Troth</pre>
>
> What if in addition there were specific tags for login_name
> and in_real_life. What should those tags be? I can imagine
>
> Login name: <USER_LOGIN_NAME>troth</USER_LOGIN_NAME>
> In real life: <USER_PERSONAL_NAME>Rick Troth
> </USER_PERSONAL_NAME>
>
> but those are a bit more verbose than I'd like to get.