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- From: Ernie
- Subject: summon
- Reply-To: jont@cs.su.oz.au
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:11:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.131107.11170@cs.su.oz.au>
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- In article <Bttvs4.3K8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) wrote:
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- [ ... ]
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- | The Other reason I proposed implementing it in the client is that clients
- | are found on almost every machine that people IRC from (ie, the machines
- | that you would want to /summon someone from). Currently, you can only
- | summon people from machines that have *SERVERS* on them... (and we all
- | know that there are already way too many servers on the net).
- Sounds like you want to get peoples clients to do teh work of the talk daemon,
- it seems sensible to just use talk/1 and use that to summon (mail could be
- a little slow for summoning) ?
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- | But... it seems that nobody is interested in /summon working as easliy
- | as talk(1) requests... Oh well... it was just an idea to kick around anyway.
- Klaus Zeuge posted an item about a separate interent program for
- sending messages ... [ refer to RFC1159 and any updates ]
-
- Ernie
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