[297] in Athena User Interface
Re: MOTD question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Wed Jul 19 14:27:17 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 19 Jul 2000 14:27:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:38:38 -0400"
Message-ID: <uusu2dmyo09.fsf@ORTHANC.MIT.EDU>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> At the risk of precipiating a senseless flamewar over a trivial
> detail:
>
> Should users get the MOTD every time they log in, or only if the
> message has changed since the last time they read it?
Maybe you should duplicate the current functionality of "get_message -new" as
called in the standard dotfiles? hmmmmmmmm?
kcr
