Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 06:01:41 -0900 (AKST) From: loodvrij@gridpoint.com (Bruce J. Keeler) To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com Subject: Re: Patch to talkd Message-ID: <m0u1Dm9-0006etC@cyb> In-Reply-To: <199603251021.CAA01337@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Mar 25, 96 02:21:20 am
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> The problem people have is that the tty selection is now dynamic and > not static. As I said in my previous mail, I make sure that all > incoming talk requests (without the third argument) show up in one > window that's always visible, so even if I can't hear it or not in > front of the machine at that time, I can see it when I get back. The request will come to the window that you most recently typed in, which will likely as not be on top. Anyway, I don't care much about calls that came in while I was out, as they'll probably have gone away by then, and if they had anything important to say they probably left email. > > Now, if I leave my machine and someone talks to me, the message will > show up in some window that I might never get back for many days! > > I'm sorry, I don't think this is a good idea at all. If the talk > message showing up in ttyv0 is such a problem, why don't you mesg n on > it anyway? Because I might actually be there. I wander around a lot. > > Satoshi > Bruce -- Bruce J. Keeler Internet: loodvrij@gridpoint.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "The thing with beating your head against a wall is that it feels so *good* when you stop."
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