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From: ca053@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: PHONE command
Message-ID: <228@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 11:19:08 GMT
References: <880114112838.00000542.EAQI.83@WYOCDC1>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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Summary: Phone is nice, but...

I know that the University of Nebraska at Lincoln disables Phone for
user accounts, and I could understand them doing this as their 780's
were already on their knees running engineering software. Now, however,
they've got an 8800, and are still disabling it. I can't see this.

   Granted, phone does use system resources, but at least around here I've
not seen THAT many users just idly chatting. They try it at first for the
novelty, but it wears off quickly. Phone is handy for talking to people
across campus, and I would think that it would be better than the thousands
of one-liners being passed back and forth through Mail as a result of
disabling phone.

   Not to mention the fact that a .CLD file can be written quite easily by
anyone with a working knowledge of VMS programming, and distributed to anyone
that wants it. I've got a file like this, and it's only 12 lines long.

                                        Tim Russell, Sophomore
                                        University of Nebraska at Omaha