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On Fri, 28 Apr 1995 Peter911SC@aol.com wrote:

> Re: Bulletins. I think we're living in the present...but the future will be
> here shortly. Lots of programs put a signal on screen when something happens
> -- I'm thinking of cc:mail right now, which produces a blinking icon when
> mail has arrived.


>  How difficult will it be for the Internet to send a similar signal to those
> eager to receive it? Maybe not today. But soon, I betcha.

Let's see - Sun had it back in 1983, on their earliest workstations.
Unix would check your mail every n seconds and give you a "you have mail" 
notification.
Emacs (Unix, VMS) had mail notifiers that would show up in a notification 
window.
xmh and xrn will notify you of incoming mail.

When Lotus did it for MS-Windows, that was an innovation. :-).

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.



From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon May  8 20:36:05 1995