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remmers
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response 75 of 80:
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Dec 25 13:59 UTC 1994 |
I tend to ignore or gloss over the motd not only when it doesn't change
often, but when it is long (as is the default situation lately).
Something to keep in mind is that many users have their
.profile or .login files set up to display additional information
on login -- such as a "who" listing or their incoming mail headers.
This stuff out after the motd and tends to make the motd scroll off the
screen, *especially* if it is lengthy. I don't think that the motd is
best used as a catch-all for public announcements, but rather that it
would be better reserved for urgent matters, and would get the most
attention if it were normally empty but had an occasional important
notice in it.
Maybe the "news" that Andrew is referring to in #72 is not Usenet news,
but a unix program called "news" that works as a bulletin manager -- it
runs when a person logs in, there's a data base of bulletins, the
"news" program keeps track of which bulletins each user has already
seen and only shows a user ones that are new since the last login. We
don't have this program on grex, but I think it's freely available and
we should think about installing it. I'd want to take a closer look at
what its capabilities are, but I think it might be a better tool than
the motd for notifying users about non-emergency matters.
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andyv
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response 76 of 80:
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Dec 25 14:23 UTC 1994 |
I'm glad you read something into it because I just assumed news was
News about Grex because I didn't see any other way to get news about
Grex easily.
Being a newbie, "news" became what my imagination made it :-)
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popcorn
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response 77 of 80:
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Jan 2 02:29 UTC 1995 |
Re 75: I thought the question was about the motd line that says
"news is still broken". That is, indeed, talking about Usenet news.
It was originally turned off as a way to swap various disks to try
to figure out the problem with disappearing files. Now I think someone
said it's still turned off because it would eat too much bandwidth if
it were turned on.
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steve
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response 78 of 80:
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Jan 2 03:13 UTC 1995 |
More specifically, if we turn it back on, it'll break in the fashion
its been doing lately, which is to fail on the transfer after about two
minutes of operation of UUCP. This is because the pc route box starts
dropping packets and the transfer aborts.
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kentn
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response 79 of 80:
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Jan 2 06:32 UTC 1995 |
So, what do we have planned in terms of getting News back on line, and
when can we expect it to return?
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tsty
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response 80 of 80:
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Jan 2 13:50 UTC 1995 |
AACS would like to know also.
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