Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Anthony Tibbs:
 SH> Sounds good. But can you FORCE them to read the messages?  Yeah.. I'd 
be
 SH> interested in a proggie like that.. Is it in MEX or an 'outside' 
language?
 AT> How can you FORCE anyone to read a message?  All they have to do is
 AT> close their eyes...
SH> The thing is, when I still ran a full-time BBS, almost all my users
SH> ignored  system messages and bulletins. I mean, I had a bulletin
SH> that said if users  played a lot of games/read a lot of messages and
SH> didn't feel they had enough  time per day, they could write me and
SH> I'd give them higher access. But they  ignoed it!! And people were
SH> running out of time when playing 3-6 games a day,  and they never
SH> wrote me for access. {sigh}.. Kind of pathetic. But I suppose I
SH> could just add about 20 pauses on the end of every bulletin.. 
SH> That might  make them read them Eh? :>
 Oh yes, it works very well.  *evil laughter*
 Redo your welcome.mec file so it has a bunch of pauses at the end
 and there you go.
 There are several other ways to do this, involving keys and
 whatnot, but the old Pause token will do the trick.
 Patrick
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