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From: CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BroadCast, AppleShare, Life, the Universe, etc...
Message-ID: <90023.101922CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 23 Jan 90 15:19:22 GMT
References: <4840@umiami.miami.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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Merely turning BroadCast into a "receive only" message facility will not solve
the crashing problem.  If someone receives a message during a critical task,
such as saving their document (for the first time in 5 hours?), the message
display will interrupt the task and cause damage.

We used to have this problem here at Penn State.  Now, checking for BroadCast
is part of our standard virus-checking routine.  Every AppleShare startup
disk that we hand out is checked when it is returned.  If we find that someone
has installed BroadCast (into an *invisible* System Folder, no less!), we
simply remove it, usually by recopying the disk from a master.

We've not had any complaints about how "I got this message on my screen and
now my computer doesn't do anything!" recently....

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