Occasionally I get these messages from "TalkDaemon@cyberspace.org". What
exactly is TalkDaemon and how do I reply to it, and how do I ignore the tels
if I am not interested in talking? 

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talk is an online chat program that splits your screen & puts everything
the other person types in one half & everything you type in the other
half.  I think you respond by entering "talk username", where "username"
is the username of the person trying to talk to you.  The daemon should
have included a message telling you this  (and, in fact, a message of
the form "talk: respond with:  talk username@hostname" which told you
how to respond).

I don't remember either how you refuse a request (other than by ignoring
it, as it repeats itself annoyingly) or how you end the session when you're
done.

You can turn off all tel & write & talk sessions with the mesg command.
You can also set up a lists of people to accept or reject requests from.
Read the man pages on talk & mesg.  Note that mesg, write/chat, and talk are
all somewhat modified on Grex, & work a bit differently from the standard Unix
varieties.

Thanks, but I knew that already. I was just wondering if "TalkDaemon" was
something different. Thanks again. 

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