From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 01:25:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA11653 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:25:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA11609 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 01:24:25 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27876; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:23:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id KAA29070 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 10:23:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA05248 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 09:29:12 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504090729.JAA05248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: talk - mesg y only To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 09:29:12 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504090335.XAA22901@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Apr 8, 95 11:35:56 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 456 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)