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| 25 new of 292 responses total. |
richard
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response 81 of 292:
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Oct 19 15:28 UTC 1999 |
I dont really want to set up .yeswrite or .nowrite files because I dont
mind getting tels, and it feels anitsocial in this environment to be
using such files. I just want to permanently block any !talk requests
because anybody !talking me should really be !teling me, and I have
rarely ever had somebody !talking me from offsite. there isnt a way
to do that?
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pfv
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response 82 of 292:
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Oct 19 15:57 UTC 1999 |
Damn, that's racist and antisocial - you should let EVERYONE tel &
talk to you! At *ALL* times!
Sheesh..
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richard
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response 83 of 292:
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Oct 19 16:28 UTC 1999 |
its not racist, I dont mind if an Indian user !tels me-- some of them
are nice-- I just dont want to turn off !tels just because I want to
turn of !talk
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pfv
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response 84 of 292:
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Oct 19 17:12 UTC 1999 |
Separationist!
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omni
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response 85 of 292:
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Oct 19 17:30 UTC 1999 |
I'm getting sick of being constantly !tel'ed and talked. I come to grex to
do chat and I damn well aint going to start now. Wanna talk to me, send me
an e-mail
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remmers
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response 86 of 292:
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Oct 19 17:35 UTC 1999 |
I think being able to turn off talk requests without turning off tel's
would be reasonable. I'd email janc about it - he's the
author/maintainer of the write/tel stuff.
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gull
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response 87 of 292:
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Oct 19 22:26 UTC 1999 |
At very least, someone should hack the 'talk' source so it only pages you
*once*, instead of repeatedly. It's a very rude program.
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pfv
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response 88 of 292:
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Oct 19 22:33 UTC 1999 |
It's garb- errr.. "it's not a problem" .."it's not an issue"
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drewmike
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response 89 of 292:
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Oct 20 02:35 UTC 1999 |
(Hey, did anyone else notice that Peefv never mentioned any specific
ethnicity, which Richard instantly pegged as Indian? Hell's yeah, I still got
the instigator in me...)
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mooncat
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response 90 of 292:
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Oct 20 12:41 UTC 1999 |
It may not be a probelm or an issue, but I would like to be able to turn
!talk off completely... I never use the program, and I don't like it.
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pfv
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response 91 of 292:
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Oct 20 14:51 UTC 1999 |
Gee, youse guys make it sound like it's your RIGHT to control
the contents of yer CRT..
(while you are modding, set it up like bbs or party: user defined
filter-insertion)
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gelinas
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response 92 of 292:
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Oct 21 01:17 UTC 1999 |
Edit your .login file and make sure it has the lines
setenv MESG mesg
mesg n
If you change your mind, change that final character to a "y".
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davel
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response 93 of 292:
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Oct 21 01:47 UTC 1999 |
... or just do "mesg y" on the fly to change it for one session.
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gelinas
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response 94 of 292:
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Oct 21 03:22 UTC 1999 |
I wish I could backspace at the login: and password: prompts. And I'm
not all that bad a typist.
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gull
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response 95 of 292:
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Oct 21 04:33 UTC 1999 |
You have a problem with your terminal settings. Your backspace key is
probably set to send ^?, while login expects ^H.
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gelinas
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response 96 of 292:
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Oct 21 04:49 UTC 1999 |
Nope. I can solve *that* problem. But when I do, grex reports, "Not allowed
to modify login" or words to that effect. And my terminal sends <CTRL>H,
which gets displayed as "^H", of course.
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gelinas
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response 97 of 292:
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Oct 21 04:57 UTC 1999 |
Here 'tis:
} (ttyr6) grex login: gelasdfk^?^H^?^?^?^H^H^H^H^H^H^?^?^?^?^?^?
} You may not change $L0
} gelas's Password:
Hmmm... This gives me an idea.
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gelinas
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response 98 of 292:
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Oct 21 05:01 UTC 1999 |
That did it:
} login: abcd^H^H^H^Hgelinas
} gelinas's Password:
So I just have to carefully count how many <CTRL>Hs I need.
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mdw
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response 99 of 292:
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Oct 21 10:32 UTC 1999 |
If you type whitespace on the login line, the extra parameters get
converted to environment variables L0, L1, etc. Login checks for
various extraneous environment variables (such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH) that
have security implications, and rejects them. It uses the pattern L*,
which has the side-effect of rejecting L0,L1 as well. It might not be
obvious, but L0, L1 do have security implications -- sometimes people
who fat finger their password manage to get it into the login prompt,
and we don't want to export passwords or parts thereof into the
environment.
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jep
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response 100 of 292:
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Oct 21 13:46 UTC 1999 |
I use ^U if I make a mistake on the login: or password: line, then I
re-type it. It works great.
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scott
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response 101 of 292:
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Oct 21 13:59 UTC 1999 |
(Control-U is "erase line" in UNIX)
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janc
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response 102 of 292:
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Oct 21 15:39 UTC 1999 |
I don't understand why login can't treat *both* ^H and ^? as delete
characters when logins and passwords are being entered. That seems the
only sane solution. Only catch is that the change over would annoy
anyone whose password includes a ^?, but any such person pretty much
deserves it.
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janc
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response 103 of 292:
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Oct 21 15:41 UTC 1999 |
Oh, and I agree that there should be a way to turn off talk requests
seperately from write/tel requests. Someone who has a couple days free
should write this sometime.
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mooncat
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response 104 of 292:
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Oct 21 16:22 UTC 1999 |
Back there for the person who suggested 'mesg n' for the .login file...
Doesn't that turn off *all* messages? I don't want that. I like
tels, and I tend to talk to many people at once via tels while
in party or something. What I don't like, or use is !talk...
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other
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response 105 of 292:
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Oct 21 19:39 UTC 1999 |
if i remember correctly, the manual for mesg or for nowrite/yeswrite includes
a flag to select between tel/talk/chat/all requests. i have a yeswrite file
and am flagged for tels only.
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