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Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger?

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On Tuesday 26 March 2013 01:39 The Natural Philosopher wrote in 
comp.os.linux.misc:

> On 26/03/13 00:15, Bruce Sinclair wrote:
>>>> In article<rasu1a-m6i.ln1@squidward.local.dionic.net>, Tim Watts
> 
>>
>>> >So if you have a better idea, I would be very interested - because I'm
>>> >stumped to do any better (without a huge amount of effort).
>> As I said earlier, email would be my choice. Preference would be for a
>> standard (and so filterable) subject as well.
>>
> 
> I agree. We experimeted with little popup up boxes that beeped  using a
> custome daemoinn  that we required everybody to run, that we coded up
> for DOS and windows - then the unix machines had no guis, so the sort of
> talkd/write stuff worked for them.
> 
> Today the answer is simple; have an email client such as thunderbird,
> and tell people to run it to check for messages every few minutes.. Then
> send (short) email messages and have it configured to actually pop up
> and tell them the subject of the message. You cant do much more than that.

That is impossible to implement here - a lot of people use Outlook or 
whatever MacOSX uses.

As I said, I don;t control the desktop...

> Unless you write popup code and install it as a demon on everybodies
> machine and tell them they cant switch it off.
> 
>>
> That is not impossible, but its quite a task.
> 
> 
> 
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Tim Watts           Personal Blog: http://squiddy.blog.dionic.net/

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Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2013-03-22 04:30 +0000
  Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-03-21 21:47 -0700
  Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 01:08 -0400
  Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-03-22 06:57 +0000
    Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 17:03 +0000
      Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-03-22 20:42 +0000
        Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz (Bruce Sinclair) - 2013-03-25 00:13 +0000
          Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-03-25 09:07 +0000
            Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz (Bruce Sinclair) - 2013-03-26 00:15 +0000
              Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 01:39 +0000
                Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-03-26 08:04 +0000
                Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-26 13:43 +0000
              Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Tim Watts <tw+usenet@dionic.net> - 2013-03-26 08:02 +0000
                Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMORELSEagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz (Bruce Sinclair) - 2013-03-27 00:17 +0000
  Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-22 16:48 +0000
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    Re: Is there an intra-machine pseudo instant messenger? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2013-03-23 04:04 +0000
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