[5079] in RedHat Linux List
Re: your party is refusing messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Corey J Stotts)
Mon Nov 18 22:24:03 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:24:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Corey J Stotts <cstotts@avalon.net>
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On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Joshua Spoerri wrote:
> on several colgate boxes, when i attempt to "talk" a user that isn't logged in,
> i get the message:
>
> [Your party is refusing messages]
>
> this also happens with ytalk, so it might be a talkd thing.
> any ideas?
This is because RedHat defaults to 'mesg n'. My old slack 3.0 didn't. The
other party has to do 'mesg y' to receive such messages.
>
-Corey
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