An old topic that was just re-surfaced in -jlily@RPI.

While lily is pretty good about maintaining backward compatibility, there are cases where client developers want to encourage folks to upgrade. With that in mind, it would be nice to provide an unobstrusive mechanism to notify users to upgrade.

Given that version numbers for clients are very arbitrary, the message should be listed for a client name and a RE matching client versions. Any client logging in who has not confirmed the message who meets the criteria would be shown the banner. At the bottom of the message would be instructions on how to disable seeing that particular message. (a / command that would mark it as read). This would allow someone who wasn't interested in upgrading to make the message go away.

This could also be used as a generic way to replace the current banner, allowing multiple messages that can be marked as read and not show up any more.)

You'd probably also want a way for users to list messages that apply to them (read or not), and to display old messages.

Thoughts?

-- CoKe - 25 Feb 2004

I think you are looking for a generic facility such as 'msgs' to be built into the server.
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