Gordon Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> In article <01bfe0ca$f691a920$031e82c0@bigbird>, "Dennis Heidner"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>"we used to notify users that a planned shutdown was over"
> >
> >I think what he wants to do is send a message to PC's that are not logged
> >on in an active session because the machine was shutdown for maintenance,
> >backups, patches, etc.
> >
> >Probably the easiest way to make this work is to shift our thinking
process
> >and just simply use JTMAIL, SENDMAIL, etc to e-mail the users when the
>
> Personally, I find that overhead paging is the easiest...  but I also
> realize that everyone doesn't have that option.

This reminds me of a story.  I was working at a company in Oregon back when
the Spectrum box was first coming out.  I was a thrid party consultant there
for some back office apps.  They were one of the 1st I believe to get a XL
box. I think developement was moved to it.  It would crash several times a
day.  They started out saying the 935 is down, the 935 is up, but customers
in house for training would also hear this overhead page.  I think they
thought it was kind of troubling for new customers to hear how manytimes the
system went down.  They later revised the page to use special names to
signify whether the 935 was up or down.  It was along the lines of
"Attention would John Doe call 935" when the machine went down and some
other name I think when it went up.  Soon only insiders knew what was
happening.

I am not sure it was a 935.  The time-frame was mid 80's.  I am sure the
names were different than what I just used, but it gives the jist of it.