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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
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Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's
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Date: 17 Jan 90 18:19:12 GMT
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mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
 
>I don't see that it is necessary to add Broadcast-type features to
>AppleShare, since the ability to do such work is not dependent on the
>existence of AppleShare.  Using normal AppleTalk calls, you can
>develop a decent system.  What advantages would AppleShare add to
>this setup?
 
It's not so much that you want Broadcast's capabilities, but that you
want the server admin to be able to send messages to people who are
logged on. NetWare lets you do this and it's quite useful, most
especially if some users are outside of shouting distance.
 
>Someone should write an APPLICATION somewhat like Backgrounder that
>just sits and waits for incoming messages.  When a message does come,
>the Notification Manager should be used to notify the user that a
>message is waiting.  They should then have to switch to that
>application to read the message (or to send a message).  This
>prevents "rude interruptions" of the current foreground application.
 
What about all those machines which can't run MF due to lack of RAM?
 
Can the Notification Mgr be called from an INIT (and without MF) in
such a way as to bring up a message without 'being rude'? That
story from Dartmouth makes it painfully clear that whatever does the
messaging needs to be as nice and friendly as possible.
 
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