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WIT Blocks "Novel - Send Message"

  • 27-09-2006 10:29AM
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Christ WIT are becoming a right pain, banning things left right and centre.

    Has anyone ever used the "Novel - Send Message" where you locate a friends student number and can send messages to and fro? Only noticed it late last year, but it seems to be "banned" now from the college.

    What next? >/


Comments

  • #2
    rogue-entity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭rogue-entity


    Just noticed that feature now, still seems to be working for me and I know that they use it to send notices to users as I once got a message from the admin staff telling me that the mail servers are back up after a maintaince issue.

    Still, Snet members can chat to each other with hey, and setting up a jabber IM server is trivial.


  • #3
    Jaeger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 319 ✭✭Jaeger


    rogue-entity wrote:
    Just noticed that feature now, still seems to be working for me and I know that they use it to send notices to users as I once got a message from the admin staff telling me that the mail servers are back up after a maintaince issue.

    Still, Snet members can chat to each other with hey, and setting up a jabber IM server is trivial.
    Novell send message was banned way back in 01/02 when I was there. Surprising that it's worked at all since then.

    I remember using hey on that server too a few years ago, snet still running the same OS?


  • #4
    rogue-entity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭rogue-entity


    Yep, Debian GNU/Linux.


  • #5
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,159 ✭✭✭dazberry


    Jaeger wrote:
    Novell send message was banned way back in 01/02 when I was there. Surprising that it's worked at all since then.

    They banned VAX mail for 1st year computing students in 90/91. These things generally go in cycles - and of course the 1st years (of which I was one at the time) got blamed for email abuse - the issue afair was really a system resource issue.

    D.


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