Ditto.  They won't read the messages anyway. Also, you have to consider
people that are legitimately away from the PC. They will never see the
message.

When I was in IT, we had a net admin that sent messages all the time.  They
annoyed the heck out of people, who as you correctly stated, do not read
them.  The messages also had the drawback of spawning untold phone calls and
/or emails asking for special extensions or asking questions like "does it
apply to me?".  Folks got annoyed and confused.

Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph J. Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Network Broadcast


> I for one, as a network user, would find that INCREDIBLY annoying, unless
it
> said "this message will self-destruct in 5 seconds", and had a countdown
> timer.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:29 AM
> Subject: OT - Network Broadcast
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is off topic, but I was wondering, as well have a lot of people on
> the list who run a network, and remotly admin it!
> >
> > What do people use to do network broadcasts? At the moment we use a
> netsend GUI, where we can enter a message, and the workstations
> > names, press send, and a message appears on the screen of the
worstations.
> Works great, plus works on all workstations (NT/2K), as they
> > all support it, we use it for sending messages like "Server will go down
> in 5 minutes" or "please remember to phone IT if photocopier
> > jams" etc.
> >
> > However, problem is, the message pops up, and people don't even read it,
> they just click ok. I was wondering, is there any comms
> > software, that will popup, and not allow people to close it, for say, 5
> seconds, or something.
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