From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 10 07:57:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA03563 for current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:57:39 -0700 Received: from goof.com (goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA03557 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 07:57:36 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01071; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:57:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 10:57:28 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199504101457.KAA01071@goof.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: talk - mesg y only In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, April 9, 1995 22:08:57 -0700 References: <199504100422.AAA02593@goof.com> <199504100508.WAA20667@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, April 9, 1995 at 22:08:57 (-0700), Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > 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 > I think it should, so that if the person you are trying to talk to > either a) doesnt want to talk to you and can quick do a ``write > bugger off, I'm busy :-)'' or b) talk back to you later after > he comes back from a coffee break. > It's not polite to initiate a talk session from a proc that does > not have messages enabled. That's a reason that makes perfect sense to me. I'm going to modify my talk so that it doesn't require this, however, because I tend to like to talk people from a mesg n terminal (so I don't get interrupted if someone else writes or talks me) and have one terminal I'm logged in from mesg y (the terminal I want to get messages on). -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 --- -----