Subject: Re: NOTIFICATION OF NEW MAIL

From: Clyde Moseberry <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:21:15 CDT

> unfortunately I do not have rcvtty. Is it worth to download it from 
> somewhere? In this case: where from ?

I believe rcvtty to be a standard part of the standard UNIX mail handling 
mh, set, but I am not an admin at my node so I don't know for sure or 
where to find it -- but my best guess is that it is likely on your system
somewhere or at least reasonably easy to get -- contact your local admin,
raise a little hell already -- users can't (and shouldn't!) do
everything! %+) 

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> How should the permissions on /dev/ttyp1 be set so that biff y is 
possible?
> TIA

just as long as the user permission r-w-x is set to active 

chmod u+x `tty` 

it doesn't matter what any of the other settings are

MOSEBERRY

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From: Clyde Moseberry <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:07:08 CDT

> > to get really COOL (with subject and sender included) notification, 
> > see if rcvtty is on your system -- if it's available set it up in a 
> > .forward file -- run a man page on rcvtty for details -- look at the
> > references at your leisure too; rcvtty require u+x on tty.
> 
> Hey, MOSEBERRY!  Thanks for the advice.  I'll try it.

why do I recognize that "!"?

> You sound knowledgable about these things; can you answer another 
> question I have? To wit:  If I own a posting on a newsgroup that has no 
> moderator, can I delete that posting?  Not just hide it from myself, but 
> actually get rid of the sucker?

don't know -- I've been using (really road testing) pine for exactly
three days -- it was by sheer coincidence that I was also working on 
a mail notification issue at my work site -- advanced features? -- 
give me a couple more hours %+)

MOSEBERRY