[17988] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.4.7: zaway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Thu Jul 13 15:05:39 2000
Message-Id: <200007131905.PAA13603@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:05:35 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.4.7 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
Send a message to someone with zaway up without it responding.
The man page says " All messages are preceded by the line
"Automated reply:". To avoid loops, messages are not sent in
response to messages beginning with "Automated reply:" or sent
by the same Kerberos principal as the user running zaway."
What's wrong:
While the signature may in some sense be considered to precede
the message, I think it really wants to say "All messages use
the zephyr signature "Automated reply:". To avoid loops,
messages are not sent in response to messages with the
signature "Automated reply:"... or something like that.
What should have happened:
The man page should have been more accurate
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man zaway
Please describe any other quibbles:
Is this really the most useful set of questions to be asking
for a bug report? I never quite know whether to put things in
"what's wrong" or "what should have happened". :)
