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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 06:11:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Murray <markm>
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To: hohmuth@inf.tu-dresden.de, markm, freebsd-bugs
Subject: Re: bin/746
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Synopsis: `talk' forbids talking from write-protected terminal for no good reason

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: markm
State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 24 06:02:30 PST 1996
State-Changed-Why: 
This feature was specifically added.

if users have a reason to overide it, there are ways, like make
the talk(1) request followed by a mesg n.

It is too easy for newbies to bug folk without this. Picture the
scene ; newbie goes talk foo@bar.baz, and changes to alternate
screen to await the answer beep. He has mesg n set so this will
never happen. This irritates the daylights out of the caller.