On Sat, 11 Jun 1994 07:04:23 -0500 Natalie Maynor <[log in to unmask]> said: >That's funny. I have both internet and bitnet available but never choose >to use interactive bitnet commands because internet mail is faster (for >me -- this is not necessarily true for everybody), mail will go through >sooner or later even if links are down whereas interactive commands die, >and I prefer getting responses as mail because I find it disruptive to >have interactive blurbs hopping onto my screen (which is why I keep >'mesg n' set all the time (no interactive messages). I find mail much >more convenient and orderly than interactive stuff and am always >fascinated to hear that some people prefer fooling with interactive >commands. I am always fascinated to see that you don't want to accept the simple fact that non-unix BITNET users have a much better implementation of TELL than you, with the result that: 1. TELL is usually faster than mail. 2. The reply is presented in a non-disruptive way by the operating system and NOT drawn over whatever happened to be on the screen at the current cursor position in a happy-go-lucky fashion. So people use TELL because it is faster, because the reply comes back faster, and because viewing it requires zero keystrokes. I'm sorry that your NJE program is inefficient and disruptive, but that doesn't mean TELL isn't useful to people with a decent NJE program. Eric