From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 10 04:06:20 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA02559 for current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 04:06:20 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA02552 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 04:06:12 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA01993; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:06:38 +0800 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:06:38 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: talk - mesg y only In-Reply-To: <199504100422.AAA02593@goof.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, matthew c. mead wrote: > > No - I mean why does talk require me to have my messages on to > INITIATE a talk with someone else. It shouldn't! :-0 I always thought that the other person would not be able to reply to your talk request if you had messages off. Mind you, I've never *tried* this, it just seemed to be the logical thing to do. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org