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echo: maximus
to: GREG MACLELLAN
from: DAVID CHORD
date: 1998-02-13 12:35:00
subject: online chatting system

Greg MacLellan wrote in a message to Minh Van:
 MV> when is the author of maximus gonna learn :) that its a 
 MV> _good_idea_ to be able to send inter-node online msgs 
 MV> to others on the BBS? 
 GM> I have a system like this setup here. You can hit /p 
 GM>  from the menu and the next time they see a menu the
 GM> message is displayed (at the bottom of all my menus (custom) it
 GM> checks for the flag tellign it the node was paged). 
Hmm, did I ask for that? Was it sent?? :-)
 MV> regardless of whether they're 
 MV> preoccupied XFERING A FILE, 
 GM> design a new protocol that supports messages being transfered while
I think what he was referring to is the 'not available' thingy. I'd like to 
be able to page another node during transfer/whatever, ie I send out the page 
message and when they've finished doing whatever then they'll see the page.
Dave
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