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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Abbreviated text/text talk Post 302123451 by Perderabo on Monday 25th of June 2007 06:52:57 PM

06-25-2007

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I agree with you on all of your points. People who use language like "ur" are in violation of the rules which state:
(9) Edit your posts if you see spelling or grammar errors (don't write in cyberchat or cyberpunk style). English only.

Many of our users have English as a second language and spellings like "ur" make things very difficult for them. Politeness is also required:

(2) No negative comments about others or impolite remarks. Be patient.

I also dislike threads with titles like "help". At least I assume that I dislike them. Over the past couple of years I have usually ignored threads like that. I have learned that when I dislike the title of a thread I am usually not going to like the content either.

I don't know what to make of the debugging skills that a few of our questioners seem to have. I wonder if they treat their automobile mechanics the same way... "Hey, I tried to drive to store, but my car could not complete the trip. What could cause that? And how can I fix that? Please respond quickly...this is urgent!"

My advice is to ignore threads that you don't like. I don't have enough time to help everyone who follows the rules and posts reasonable questions. So I don't want to waste time with people who won't follow the rules or spend a little time composing a reasonable question.

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talkd

in.talkd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      in.talkd(1M)

NAME

       in.talkd, talkd - server for talk program

SYNOPSIS

       in.talkd

DESCRIPTION

       talkd is a server used by the talk(1) program.  It listens at the  UDP port indicated in the ``talk'' service description; see services(4).
       The actual conversation takes place on a  TCP connection that is established by negotiation between the two machines involved.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWrcmds 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       svcs(1), talk(1), inetadm(1M), inetd(1M), svcadm(1M), services(4), attributes(5), smf(5)

NOTES

       The protocol is architecture dependent.

       The in.talkd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

       svc:/network/talk

       Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). Responsibil-
       ity for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(1M). Use inetadm(1M) to make configuration changes and to view config-
       uration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

SunOS 5.10							    31 Jul 2004 						      in.talkd(1M)