Multitalk(Mtalk) Ver.2.5 Testing Participants.

[Albert Viall]

	I am looking at lining up a few interested people to help with the
initial testing of a VERY new Multitalk multi-user conferencing program.
Some of you may remember,(then again, some may not), that I uploaded Mtalk
1.5 to the net around christmas of last year. I will be the first to agree,
that it was very buggy and badly written, and did not fulfill my envisioning
of the Mtalk that I had WISHED to produce.
 	I am looking towards Jan 1st as the date for the release of this new
version which will allows any user with the client Mtalk program to connect
to any Mtalk server running ANYWHERE which has Internet access. I will also
provide an option to configure a server to remain local to its machine if
the Mtalk Administrator wishes.
	If anyone remembers the old Mtalk, it had a very recreational twist
to it,(i.e. Multitalk Talk Parlour), which the new version goes a step beyond.
The server will be able to be totally configured, which means that no two
Mtalk server's need be the same, which the Administrator can decide on when
he/she compiles it. 
	Plans are for the programs to be portable to SunOS, 4.xBSD, VAX running
Ultrix, Pyramid OSx, and Cray UNICOS when the finals are distributed to the
net.

	I will need a few volunteers to help with the Alpha, and Beta test modes
which will start around Nov. 15. If you will be interested, let me know at the
following e-mail address, and I will get back to you in the near future.
If selected, these people will receive the 'client' programs in order to test
out the `server` program which will be running here at Cray.
	With all this talk of Multi-user chat programs, I just thought
some of you needed to know what was coming in the near future from the 
originator of `Mtalk'.

	Send inquiries to: alv at ferris.cray.com

DISCLAIMER: This software is no way sponsered in whole or in part by Cray
Research, Inc. or any of it's regional branches, and is the offering of
the author only. With a little help from above. :-)

Albert Viall
CCN - Operations
Cray Research, Inc.
alv at ferris.cray.com

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