In article <1995Oct8.140827@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Bob William
s) writes:
> In article <1995Oct8.112328@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (John B Harlan) write
s:
>>
>> In article <1995Oct7.152513@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Bob
>> Williams) asked:
>>> Why is it that sometimes, a person can clearly be logged in (they are on
>>> the user list, and if you finger them, they are on and doing something),
>>> but when I try to SEND a message to them, it says they are not logged in
>>> (but finger them again, and they are still logged in). I've experienced
>>> this twice since last night. One person was in a lab and was in Lynx, and
>>> the other was a dial-in, and was in the VMS Mail system.
>>
>> It could be that they have SET BROADCAST=NONE to prevent them from receiving
>> interactive messages, such as SENDs, PHONE messages, e-mail receipt
>> notifications, etc.  Usually this is done when a person needs or wants to
>> work uninterrupted.  Here are the parameters for the SET BROADCAST command:
> <snip>
>
> That could definately come in handy... thanks. Is there any other way that
> could happen, though? I am not sure in one case, but one of those people
> barely knows much beyond the extreme basics, and I am sure he doesn't know
> this. Is it possible, through a program crash or something, to be logged
> off, but still have active processes running?
 
Yes.  See my previous post.
 
> That is apparently what
> happened in this case, as I found out later that he *was* logged off, but
> fingering him still showed two processes....
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
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