"slack goes down"
There was me, wondering for about a half an article, if productivity miraculously increases on a Friday afternoon...
Well, it's official: the weekend starts here. Not because it has ticked past 1700 on a Friday in Europe, not because it has gone midday in New York City on a Friday, and not because it's already Saturday in Asia and Australia. No, it's because it's a Friday afternoon at the end of June, and Slack has gone down. That means all …
"MSG" or "tell at" if you were sophisticated. You could even set up nicknames with their userid and node. And the messaes were guaranteed delivery (up to a point of returning to tell you it had failed).
And you could send from your VM to their TSO.
For 'twas IBM mainframes in the year of our lord 1980something of which he spake.