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[Michael T. Davis]

In article <R6MgYaFGNmwd at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <hbunhm$55k$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
> Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
>>
>> Oohhh, so you've moved them off VMS MAIL and they are angry.  What do we
>> conclude from that?
>
>   If I understand correctly, the users have been moved off of VMS.  No
>   wonder they're having problems.  8-)
>
>   Can they get an ssh into a captive account for a broadcast message?
>

	The users are in Process' PMDF MessageStore, which in our case is
actually running on the same VMS environment where their VMS accounts (still)
exist.  Even if we could work out a way to notify them via terminal broadcast,
since most of them are undergrad. students, they would be hard pressed to
understand the concept of a command line, given the popularity of (if not
preference for) systems like Gmail.  We also don't have the resources to
maintain simultaneous interactive terminal sessions for each and every user,
or even a majority of them.

Regards,
Mike
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