The new Unixmail will be a Sun Sparc10 system rather than a Sparc2. Finger presented a security problem for us. We are looking for alternate ways to provide similar functionality to the Haverford community. One use of finger is to find out users' email addresses. This can currently be done using the campus directory accessible from the Haverford home page on the Web.
Some people also use finger to determine whether someone has read email recently.
This function of finger will be more difficult to replace. We will be looking into this over the next few months. Another option is to set your email to forward to your email account abroad, if you have one. This you can do on your own via the Web. Faculty who will be on leave during the switch should contact an Academic Computing staff member about getting their new Unix password.