Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA10888; Wed, 15 Jun 88 00:27:06 EDT From: Received: by ATHENA.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA07770; Wed, 15 Jun 88 00:26:58 EDT Received: by E40-368-1 (5.45/4.7) id AA01108; Wed, 15 Jun 88 00:26:51 EDT Message-Id: <8806150426.AA01108@E40-368-1> To: bgardner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Cc: mackay@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: rules that forward, and Date: Wed, 15 Jun 88 00:26:49 EDT a program that keeps running in the background... One thing you could do is subscribe to a Zephyr service that sends you a "wake up" call at a specified time. (Like a hotel???) You could subscribe to different wake up services and Zephyr could broadcast them as required. Another idea would be to have something that runs whenever you logout that checks to see if a certain amount of time has passed and then runs an appropriate process. It's a bit tricky in this environment -- these are just a few off-the-cuff ideas. W