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Sean Anaya <sanaya@holly.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
: So, whats the problem with buzzing another person's terminal?
: if they don't wish to be contacted they can always set mesg to off.
: I personally prefer the program nmsg.

Not familiar with nmsg.  As for the problem?  If you are in any
curses based application, hitting the terminal usually permanently
messes up the screen. This includes PINE, ELM, PICO, and even TALK
itself.  It could almost be considered rude to splatter up someone's
display.
Well, to be sure, usually a CTRL-L will fix things, but how many 
people do you think know that?  An interesting side-note:  New
PINE users get set up with a set of defaults that include turning
messages off.  This saves them the problem of having their mail
sessions splattered into garbage, but kind of destroys the whole
idea of talk and write...

Some of the newer talk daemons will take a "message" for someone
if their messages are off.  It deliveres it as E-mail, I believe.

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Computer Science Major                      Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP