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Subject: Re: How to best communicate with my users
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> Pardon me for asking such a simple questions, but what is the best=20
> way of
>
> 1) messaging offline users on my system? No e-mail please, I want
> something more concrete, something displayed immediately upon login,
> no need to go via a third party app.

I'd edit /etc/motd and wrote my message in there - If I recall right=20
there was an option of "force feeding" it to every user despite of=20
user environment settings.

-Reko=20