Subject: Re:

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 07:34:43 +0800

> Can you type back and forth on e-mail like you can with aol?

        Email is not interactive.

        According to the news reports these days the only "talking back and 
forth" on AOL these days is between customers, customer service, and 
lawyers.  :-)

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 10:32:36 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Ed Greshko wrote:

  >Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 07:34:43 +0800
  >From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
  >To: [email-masked]
  >Cc: [email-masked]
  >Subject: Re:
  >

I think you got the question entirely wrong. What she meant was: Do my
emails get bounced, too, when I use Pine instead of AOL? And the answer is,
of course: If you're using an aol address, your mail will most likely get
bounced. To make sure it gets bounced, please use the appropriate (or is it
default?) subjects like "ME TOO!!!", "MAKE MONEY FAST" or "PLEASE MAILBOMB
ME!!!".

Cheers,
Robin

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 14:48:47 +0100 (CET)

>        Email is not interactive.

Yes it is: Set up a filter that *asks* before it sends any mail with AOL in
it to /dev/null (or bounces it, attaching nice X-sources...).

  >forth" on AOL these days is between customers, customer service, and

On second thought, she might mean this:

        FEATURE: allow-talk
        
By default, permission for others to "talk" to your terminal is turned off
when you are running Pine. When this feature is set, permission is instead
turned on. If enabled, you may see unexpected messages in the middle of your
Pine screen from someone attempting to contact you via the "talk" program.

Note: The "talk" program has nothing to do with Pine or email.  The talk
daemon on your system will attempt to print a message on your screen when
someone else is trying to contact you. If you wish to see these messages
while you are running Pine, you should enable this feature.

If you do enable this feature and see a "talk" message, you must suspend or
quit Pine before you can respond.
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This can be set in the M(ain) screen under S(etup) C(onfig):

feature-list  =
            Set  Feature Name
            ---  ----------------------
            [ ]  allow-talk

but who would want to talk to an AOL-user? I'd rather use a cron-job sending
ME TOO!!!s to /dev/null, which imnsho would be the closest equivalent to
that.

Cheers,
Robin

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 02:09:03 -0300 (GMT)

> quit Pine before you can respond.

How does one suspend Pine?  I've always quitted before responding to a 
"talk" message.

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From: Shoeless in San Jose <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:41:22 -0800 (PST)

> How does one suspend Pine?  I've always quitted before responding to a 

Make sure you enable the 'enable-suspend' in the Setup / Configuration 
section.  Then do a Ctrl-Z to suspend Pine, allowing you to start talking 
or whatever else you need to do.  Type 'fg' at the prompt when you want 
to return to Pine.

Greg
[email-masked]

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:48:45 +0100

> How does one suspend Pine?  I've always quitted before responding to a 

You must enable suspend in the setup, then you can use Ctrl-Z as normal

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