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- From: dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman)
- Subject: Re: /summon command?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:30:58 GMT
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- jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
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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.
-
- This idea would be veeeery bad. I can already see it: ppl/bots mass summoning
- to flood people with mail. I don't see a real need for a summon. Sure it
- would be neat, but you can just as easily talk/write/e-mail them. My $.02
- worth.
-
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