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we used C<IO::Socket::INET>, ignored the problem of multiple hosts and
ignored IPv6 and a few other things that C<tcp_connect> handles for us.

But the main advantage is that we can not only run this finger function in
the background, we even can run multiple sessions in parallel, like this:

   my $f1 = finger "kuriyama", "freebsd.org";
   my $f2 = finger "icculus?listarchives=1", "icculus.org";
   my $f3 = finger "mikachu", "icculus.org";

   print "kuriyama's gpg key\n"    , $f1->recv, "\n";
   print "icculus' plan archive\n" , $f2->recv, "\n";
   print "mikachu's plan zomgn\n"  , $f3->recv, "\n";

It doesn't look like it, but in fact all three requests run in
parallel. The code waits for the first finger request to finish first, but
that doesn't keep it from executing them parallel: when the first C<recv>
call sees that the data isn't ready yet, it serves events for all three
requests automatically, until the first request has finished.

The second C<recv> call might either find the data is already there, or it