On 2013-01-18 01:47, Gregg Levine wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2013-01-17 16:49, sampsa at mac.com wrote: The problem with PHONE is that you can't see a centralised directory of the whole network and who's on. I tried to write a script on a Linux-DECNET box to get such a directory but it broke something on BQT's systems. Broke and broke... You managed to spam my logging. For some reason you managed to trigger logs for trying to access machines that were not up, if I remember correctly... Johnny IM's are slightly different, as I'm sure you're aware. The benefits to phone are: - You are notified when your buddies log on, anywhere on HECnet - You can control who can message you (i.e. buddies only) sampsa On 17 Jan 2013, at 17:46, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 17 Jan 2013, at 10:38, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote: El 17/01/2013, a les 16:09, sampsa at mac.com va escriure: Any interest in this type of service, i.e. something like Jabber/Gtalk but over DECNET? Aren't you reinventing PHONE? ;) Only insofar as to use it on an actual phone I hope. ;) Jordi Guillaumes i Pons jg at jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol Hello! It did? Just how far along was this? Dave that was the fault of the monstrosity keeping your PDP-11 family company. Including the furry something else that keeps sending.... Well you get the idea. Half a year or maybe a year ago. Sampsa was running a program which used PHONE to check who was logged in on various machines. When he tried all machines in area 1, MIM got loads of entries in the log for Sampsa's machine trying to talk with machines that were down. (I might be remembering things wrong, and I might be mixing things up, but it was not as if MIM crashed or anything because of Sampsa's code, but I asked him to stop, as he was filling up plenty of logs as far as I can remember.) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol