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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: /summon command?
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- Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:05:17 GMT
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- randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes
- > Not their client.. but another client on the same host.
-
- Doesn't sound to me like that would fall within the bounds of what a
- client does. Also, since there would be no way to turn this messaging off
- (like you can turn talk and write requests off via "mesg n" or "chmod go-w
- `tty`") it might be better if the summoning went through mail.
-
- If it did go through mail, it could be a trivial add-on to make a server
- summon any user that can be reached by mail.
-
- dprust@carroll1.cc.edu (Dan Prust) writes:
- > Exactly what is wrong (or so damn hard) with using another of the ports
- > (extensive number of which can be used) to run a seperate summoning
- > program?
-
- To this, I'd say nothing is hard about it, but that's another port that
- could be used for a different program.
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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