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From: elliott@yosemite.steinmetz
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Date: 29 Jul 88 18:30:43 GMT
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In article <10356@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
[shocked reactions to my praise of $MESSAGESYSTEM]
>>Things
>>like "retrieve outgoing status to=fred", if you want to see if fred
>>has read your mail yet,
>Which is twice as verbose as saying "finger fred" to see if he's read
>his mail lately.

But fingering someone is useless because you can not be sure they have
seen a particular message.

Anyway, I didn't expect to find MTSphobes on the Net. :) I can
understand it at RPI, where many students resent not having an
alternative to MTS; I would not want it as my ONLY operating system.
But it is fun to have around, and definitely does have some good
ideas. That's all I'll say on the subject now... Especially in these
rather inappropriate groups.


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