(Sorry for replying to a digest, people... I haven't found an easy way to
extract and reply to a single message.)
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 05:38:12PM -0700, Mersenne Digest wrote:
>> I would find a popup box a terrible nuisance, so I'd like an option
>> to turn it off or on, with default off.
>If it were an option, there should be a way for REALLY important alerts to
>get through, so that anyone running v17 would have been alerted about the
>bug even if normal alerting were turned off. Wouldn't you rather have some
>exceptions get through, with the decision about what qualifies as
>"exceptional" being made by George and/or Scott?
Have nobody considered the `good old' UNIX way? Especially with mprime, it
would be easy to send a _local_ e-mail to the `administrator' (ie. the
person who runs mprime). There is even a priority field in e-mail (although
I'm not sure if it is official or not), which could be utilized. Of course,
this would be a much bigger problem for Windows machines.
In general, I think the Primenet server should send out things like v17 bug
info in the future (via e-mail). Alternatively, it could reject all v17 clients,
but I suspect it already does that, and it could go months before the program
contacts the server and finds out. Perhaps we should have a `program
validation' function, in which the program _has_ to contact the Primenet
server (unless explicitly disabled by the user; not everybody has Internet
access...) before a certain amount of time.
/* Steinar */
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