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- From: dorand@rocbi.DNET.roche.com ("Daniel M. Doran, PRTC, phone 88270")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Need NOTES API or NOTEBOOK structure information
- Message-ID: <9207240833.AA08609@mailgate.roche.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 08:33:50 GMT
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- > So we want to sugar coat things a little, and one proposal on
- > the board is a subscribable service which would, during the wee hours, poll the
- > NOTEBOOKs of selected users, and send them MAIL when a threshold of unseen
- > messages is detected. This would eliminate the complaint that while MAIL tells
- > them when they log on if it's worth going into MAIL, NOTES doesn't tell them if
- > its worth it to enter it, until they've already entered it and executed an
- > UPDATE command.
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- What we have implemented is a procedure in the system login.
- During login, a process is spawned that updates the user's
- notebook class MAIN and counts the number of unread notes. It
- them broadcasts a message onto the user's screen telling her the
- number of unread notes in so many conferences.
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