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From: peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Broadcast (Was: What I'd like to see in the AppleShare of the 90's)
Keywords: accounting, communications
Message-ID: <1990Jan22.130318.27020@aucs.uucp>
Date: 22 Jan 90 13:03:18 GMT
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>Unfortuantely, Broadcast is abused at Dartmouth.  Students tend to use
>it as a conversation mode.  (You know about teenagers and telephones,
>right?)

We solved that problem here by hacking up Broadcast 1.0 and making a
"receive only" version. It is used now only for an occasional "System
going down for maintenance" sort of message. We'd be lost without it.
It has crashed me a few times in certain applications, but we get no
complaints at all from our users. So we're quite satisfied with it and
have even payed the shareware fee. 

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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