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Date:      Sun, 9 Apr 1995 09:29:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: talk - mesg y only
Message-ID:  <199504090729.JAA05248@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504090335.XAA22901@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Apr 8, 95 11:35:56 pm

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As matthew c. mead wrote:
> 
>     Why does talk want mesg y all the time?

Ensure privacy for people who wish it.  If nobody can write(1) you
anything, why should they be able to bother you with talks?

It's another issue if we shouldn't enable messages by default.
Especially newbies regularly forget about it.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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