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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 23:00:58 EST
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I am looking for some form of a system notices utility for VMS.
Back in my DEC-10 days, I had a utility called SCOOP from University of 
Texas @ Austin (UTA). If SCOOP was invoked with no arguments - as part of
the user login - a user would see headlines of system messages; ie:

	[15] GOBAT 2.3 Fixes rooted directory problem
	[16] Wheel and keptemacs are back in harmony

If the user wished more information he could type "SCOOP article-number".
Users only saw headlines once. SCOOP also had a feature that would allow
for important messages - like "SYSTEM DOWN TONIGHT" - to be displayed
at every login.

About a year ago; I talked to someone at UTA to see if they had ported
SCOOP to VMS. I was told they had not; they were using BULLETIN or
BBOARD or somesuch - and that what they were using was available on
Arpanet. At the time I was in another department and did not have access
to USEnet, or Arpa, or anything else.

Does anyone have/know of something similar to what I described above?
Please contact by E-mail or bell-o-phone; UUCP path from the ucbvax
(and harvard?) gateway and my phone number are below.

As an aside; I saw a passing reference a month or so ago to something
called BULLETIN by/from Mark London (MRL@PFCVAX). Is this like SCOOP?
I can't seem to send E-mail to him; every path I have tried comes
back with PFCVAX being an unknown host.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

...............
tom allebrandi 2, general electric automation controls operation
UUCP: ...ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!ta2
  or  ...harvard!seismo!scgvaxd!edison!ta2
box 8106, charlottesville, va, 22906      (804) 978-5566
...............