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From: tom@rsch.WISC.EDU (Thomas Scott Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: WANTED: more descrimitating ``talk'' program
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 12:19:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 12:19:39 1986
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i don't like to have just two states: accepting msgs or not accepting
them.  so what i would like is for talk to consult a file for a list of
people that i am willing to talk to.  the reason for this is that i
am a sysadmin on an interconnected set of systems that has literally
*thousands* of users, and i was getting so many calls from random
people all day (and night!) that i just couldn't get anything done, so
i stuck a 'mesg n' in my .login; unfortunately, there *are* a few
people who have legitimate reasons for talking to me.  anyone out there
have anything that might be useful?

--tom