From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 21:22:43 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA00209 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 21:22:43 -0700 Received: from goof.com (goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA00203 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 21:22:42 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA02593; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 00:22:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 00:22:34 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199504100422.AAA02593@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 In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, April 9, 1995 09:29:12 +0200 References: <199504090335.XAA22901@goof.com> <199504090729.JAA05248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----