trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) (01/10/88)
In article <931@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes: >In article <302@stag.UUCP>, trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes: >>In article <928@atari.UUCP> neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) writes: >>> >>>OK, I'll buy that part. But you can't leave messages "TO" a specific person. >>> >>Yes, you can...you just go to the mail 'room' (.g mail) and enter a message. > >We're talking semantics here. I know you can leave private "email" in >STadel, but you can't leave a public "message" addressed to someone. > Neil, If you look at this message, you will see that I have effectively addressed my message to you (without even having to type in your full name...) If you want to reply to someone in particular on an STadel in a public group, isn't it just as easy to put their name into the body of the message like this as it is to be prompted for the name in a program? It's true that if you (R)eply to someone on other BBS's, you don't have to type in their name, but is that such a big deal? In fact, you can speak directly to more than one person in a public forum in this way...sheeze...in fact... Dan (Mr. MWC), Thanks for the info on big arrays...now that hdscan is released on Unix I should be able to get a new version released on the ST soon (with no messy limitations). Lee (and other DISKTOP users), A new version of disktop is coming up soon (I finally found out why the new OSS Pascal was flaking out on me). I am looking at eventually trashing the code, however, and hatcheting up a special version of HDSCAN to become a future version of DISKTOP...that way I can keep track of full hierarchy and also have a tool that will work on all the floppies on my Unix box...with all of hdscan's features of course. I am really surprised that there aren't any tools like this already on Unix systems...or if there are, they are so expensive that I never hear about them. -Todd Burkey trb@stag.UUCP "It's up to -13 degrees today and the windchill has warmed up to 30 below at noon...almost shirtsleeve weather. I WANT SUMMER BACK!"
neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) (01/13/88)
In article <308@stag.UUCP>, trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes: > >We're talking semantics here. I know you can leave private "email" in > >STadel, but you can't leave a public "message" addressed to someone. > > Neil, > If you look at this message, you will see that I have effectively > addressed my message to you (without even having to type in your > full name...) If you want to reply to someone in particular on an > STadel in a public group, isn't it just as easy to put their name > into the body of the message like this as it is to be prompted for > the name in a program? The difference is, on other BBS programs, you can log in and be notified that there are messages waiting for you. In STadel, that only works for email, and only if you go looking for it. -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil GEnie: NHARRIS/ WELL: neil / BIX: neilharris / Delphi: NEILHARRIS CIS: 70007,1135 / Atari BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion