Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 00:22:34 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: talk - mesg y only Message-ID: <199504100422.AAA02593@goof.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, April 9, 1995 09:29:12 %2B0200 References: <199504090335.XAA22901@goof.com> <199504090729.JAA05248@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, April 9, 1995 at 09:29:12 (+0200), J. Wunsch 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?
No - I mean why does talk require me to have my messages on to
INITIATE a talk with someone else. It shouldn't! :-0
> It's another issue if we shouldn't enable messages by default.
> Especially newbies regularly forget about it.
This is another issue - I'm talking about the initiator end of
things, not the responder end of things...
-matt
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