GROSS@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) (01/18/90)
In response to the managers at Dartmouth who've been having problems with
BroadCast, lemme offer a quick and easy solution...if you paid for
BroadCast, you should've received instructions on how to turn BroadCast
into nothing more than a message-daemon. Users on our network can only
receive messages...they cannot send...this also reduces traffic since
we don't have all those BroadCasts making NBP lookups over and over again.
And we've never experienced one of those BroadCast-inspired crashes (so he
sez now...wait until later....).
And finally, for all those posts regarding the adding of a message capa-
bility to AppleShare...I'd rather Apple spend more time adding
accounting and network analysis tools...AppleShare will put up it's own
warning about server's going down...and for other things...you can use
BroadCast or, if yer afraid it'll kill someone's file...you can always
pick up a phone and call the lab and tell the guy on duty to make a little
announcement... :)
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Lie: The University of Miami is a non-profit institution.CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate) (01/23/90)
Merely turning BroadCast into a "receive only" message facility will not solve the crashing problem. If someone receives a message during a critical task, such as saving their document (for the first time in 5 hours?), the message display will interrupt the task and cause damage. We used to have this problem here at Penn State. Now, checking for BroadCast is part of our standard virus-checking routine. Every AppleShare startup disk that we hand out is checked when it is returned. If we find that someone has installed BroadCast (into an *invisible* System Folder, no less!), we simply remove it, usually by recopying the disk from a master. We've not had any complaints about how "I got this message on my screen and now my computer doesn't do anything!" recently.... ------- Christopher Tate | somewhere i have never travelled, cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | gladly beyond any experience, ..!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | your eyes have their silence.