Writing to instances and classes

zwrite -i instancename changes the instance you are sending to from personal to instancename, and by default sends to the class message and the recipient *, which was explained above. For example, zwrite -i help would send a zephyrgram to the instance help, and anyone who had subscribed would receive the zephyrgram.

zwrite -c classname changes the class you are sending to from message to classname. By default, it will send to the instance personal, and the recipient *. This means that everyone subscribed to that class would receive the zephyrgram. Using the example class myfriends, zwrite -c myfriends would send a zephyr to the class myfriends and the instance personal.

zwrite -c classname -i instancename

sends a zephyrgram to an instance within the class you are writing toinstead of to the instance personal. Generally, all people subscribed to a class subscribe to all the instances within that class, so sending to the instance silly-name in the class myfriends would not go to any different people than just sending to the class myfriends.

One thing to note about sending to various Zephyr instances and classes is that the capitalization you use does not matter. For example, zwrite -i white-magic is the same as zwrite -i WHITE-MAGIC, which is the same as zwrite -i WhIte-mAGiC, etc. Anyone subscribed to white-magic will receive messages sent any of these ways.