[6350] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Annoying user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Sat May 3 15:26:07 1997
To: amy10@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 1997 12:46:27 EDT."
<199705031646.MAA08999@sundial.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 15:25:57 EDT
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
> Is there any way to block a person from attempting to "talk"
> to you? There is a guy from Brandeis who repeatedly has tried
Whelp, it depends on exactly what you want to do. If you want to
disallow everyone from opening a talk connection with you you can type
"mesg n" at the prompt or add it to your dot files for it to happen
all the time (just create a file in your home directory called
.cshrc.mine and put the lines:
if ($?prompt) then
mesg n
endif
in it.) This will give anyone trying to open a talk connection the
message "Your party is refusing messages" and you won't notice a
anything.
If you would still like other people to be able to open a talk
connection with you you might be able to take advantage of the fact
that a person needs to know what machine you're logged in to in order
to open a talk connection. So if you're not always logging in to the
same machines you might type:
zctl set exposure realm-announced
(or)
zctl set exposure realm-visible
at the prompt. This will prevent anyone outside of MIT from being
able to determine what machine you're logged in to if they can't guess
it. (you can pick up a copy of iZephyr in the sipb office if you'd
like to learn more about what those commands do exactly)
> is. I tried sending him email telling him nicely to go away,
> but he doesn't seem to be getting the message.
If you're interested in taking some other kind of action (like having
Brandeis network administrators talk to him) there are people you can
contact at Brandeis, but we'll need more information to know who.
kretch
(ps, in the future this kind of mail should go to sipb@mit.edu,
bug-sipb is more for bugs in software in the sipb locker.)
