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Grex > Coop8 > #52: Adding .yeswrite and .nowrite to the write program | |
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scott
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response 200 of 315:
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Jul 7 14:42 UTC 1996 |
Thanks, mary. I was wondering if I'd missed anything.
Still, a .cfdir isn't set up for newbies, so it is an obscure feature.
Add to the above if no file found:
ls -l /home/***/.cfdir/.cflirt.cf
And yes, somebody could exit out using the Abort command, or they could use
"more" on the raw files, etc. I did mention they could have dropped out of
the conf.
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robh
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response 201 of 315:
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Jul 7 15:13 UTC 1996 |
Or you can just report their login id here, and *we* can look
for their conference files. >8)
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brighn
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response 202 of 315:
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Jul 7 16:10 UTC 1996 |
Highlights is Christian? I don't recall any specifically Christian articles.
Moralistic, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean Christian.
Goofus posts and double-posts five-screen items.
Gallant makes his posts short, clear, and to the point.
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void
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response 203 of 315:
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Jul 7 16:11 UTC 1996 |
i haven't had too much trouble with random cybersex requests since i
changed the gender in my .plan from "f" to "irrelevant." when i do get random
talk requests, i turn my perms off (usually with !mesg d) and after a minute
or so turn them back on. that seems to get the point across fairly well.
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popcorn
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response 204 of 315:
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Jul 7 19:58 UTC 1996 |
(Is "mesg d" the same as "mesg N"? I've never seen it before. It isn't
listed as an option in the help screen from "mesg", but mesg also doesn't
complain that d is an invalid parameter.
I, too, don't recall Highlights magazine being specifically Christian, just
preachy. I doubt my family would have bought us many years of subscriptions
if it had been specifically intended for Christian children.)
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scott
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response 205 of 315:
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Jul 7 20:41 UTC 1996 |
I stand corrected on Highlights. It is sufficiently preachy for me to assume
it was Christian published. ;)
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rcurl
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response 206 of 315:
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Jul 8 07:20 UTC 1996 |
We got Highlights for several years for our daughter - and now for our
grandson. It was no more "preachy" than a lot of things for youngsters,
and the ideas it tried to convey were ethical ideas. It was OK (and, if
you know me, that's high praise... 8^}).
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tsty
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response 207 of 315:
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Jul 8 08:36 UTC 1996 |
i remember Highlights as well... it's ok by me also (wow, agreement?)
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davel
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response 208 of 315:
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Jul 8 14:13 UTC 1996 |
In a way it's preachy - the particular way happens mostly to be stuff I
approve of. But it's not anything like unique in that - it's just that the
other kids' magazines we get or have gotten happen to be pushing things that
are more politically correct, on the whole.
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brighn
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response 209 of 315:
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Jul 8 18:35 UTC 1996 |
(and if Rane subscribes, you *know* it's not Christian =} )
What features were preachy, besides Goofus and Gallant?
I recall most of it being educational and fun, and not preachy at all.
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janc
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response 210 of 315:
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Jul 8 18:52 UTC 1996 |
"mesg d" is the same as "mesg N". I keep meaning to make "mesg d" disconnect
without turning off your messages, but I haven't got around to it.
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selena
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response 211 of 315:
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Jul 9 05:22 UTC 1996 |
ahem...
Disagree with 145.
'nuff said.
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bjorn
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response 212 of 315:
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Jul 9 12:50 UTC 1996 |
I believe that the ".yeswrite"/".nowrite" is a good idea. I'd rather content
with having everybody except the people I want to have real-time communcation
with shut out, than be mailed to turn on my messages and open a channel to
everyone.
As for the actual program, can we not make is so that if a person's
login is not is ".yeswrite" that that person is automatically shut out. Even
if we do add the programs, it doesn't mean that everyone is going to use them.
However, I am sick of being RTC'd by just about every new person on Grex when
I have my messages on. I'd rather have the ".yeswrite"/".nowrite" than to
re-program the watch program so that when my friends, associates and/or
enemies are logged on a channel is opened to anyone who wants to talk to me.
Further, I'd be interested in a program that doesn't allow RTC requests
when I am entering an item or a response in the BBS.
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ajax
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response 213 of 315:
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Jul 9 15:57 UTC 1996 |
The "yeswrite" file will work as you describe above, keeping those not
in your list from being able to talk to you.
You can keep people from writing to you whenever you're in bbs by
starting bbs with "!amin -n bbs". I'm not sure if you can restrict writes
just to when you're entering text. If you can, it would probably be done
with the "define editor" command in your .cfonce file, somehow or other.
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bjorn
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response 214 of 315:
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Jul 9 17:51 UTC 1996 |
Hmm, very interesting. I'll also keep those other ideas in mind for
konsideration.
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rcurl
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response 215 of 315:
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Jul 10 01:52 UTC 1996 |
My daughter just dug up a couple of her old copies of Highlights. They
are not preachy. The subtitle is "Fun with a Purpose". The contents
are extremely varied, from biography to zoology, also with lots of
educational games. The editorial board are mostly PhDs, MDs, EdDs, etc,
in education, medicine, pediatrics, music. There are two emeritus
reverends...one Jewish and the other Catholic.
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bjorn
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response 216 of 315:
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Jul 10 02:10 UTC 1996 |
Umm. What does that have to do with this konversation?
With all due respekt, of kourse.
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tsty
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response 217 of 315:
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Jul 10 06:28 UTC 1996 |
answering a drift from above that is most likely now drifted away.
anyway ... the concept of a .yeswrite sure seems antithetical to what
grex pronounces. the .nowrite is sad enough. sure, some jerk can
spend an extra 15 minutes or so creating a new loginid simply for the
sake of harassing someone. in which case there is more of a problem
than *either* a .yes/.nowrite can solve --- or even deal with.
let's go in itty-bitty steps in this anti-social direction, ok?
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bjorn
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response 218 of 315:
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Jul 10 14:00 UTC 1996 |
Well, if we really want to remove antisosial behavior - why don't we get rid
of the ability of filtering people out of our e-mail?
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davel
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response 219 of 315:
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Jul 10 15:45 UTC 1996 |
TS, I'd regard this as a step away from the antisocial position of making it
impossible to avoid being hassled by random individuals. We didn't formerly
have much problem with twits who *do* that, so we didn't need to provide
defenses against it; now we do.
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robh
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response 220 of 315:
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Jul 10 16:35 UTC 1996 |
In fact, let's go all they way. Allowing anyone to refuse
messages is very antisocial. Let's just remove "mesg n" from
the system, and guarantee that everyone will be sociable.
They'll have to be. I'm sure that the one or two (or 1000)
people who complain will adjust.
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tsty
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response 221 of 315:
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Jul 10 16:41 UTC 1996 |
filtering people OUT (???) of email? that doesn't sound like .yeswrite
to me (can email be 'filtered' thus?)
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bjorn
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response 222 of 315:
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Jul 10 17:09 UTC 1996 |
Re # 221: Yes it can.
Re # 220: It is easier (not to mention better) to be allowed to ignore twits
than to have to put up with their idosy. Or perhaps we kould make the
Etikwitte piece pop up every time someone trys to write, talk, tel, or chat
someone? And have it yell at them if that loginid is not entirely idle?
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robh
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response 223 of 315:
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Jul 10 17:31 UTC 1996 |
Re 221 - Oh yes, we've had mail filtering capabilities here as
long as I can remember. We just don't encourage people to
use them.
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ajax
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response 224 of 315:
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Jul 10 18:04 UTC 1996 |
Grex has conference and party filters available, as well.
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