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What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?

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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>
To: "ZSH Users" <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:18:04 +0200
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What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?  I really
don't care to be notified either way, but there doesn't seem to be
such an option.  Anyway, if I have to be notified, why would I want it
intermixed with a command's output?  I'm not being sarcastic, I just
want to know how the setting was chosen so that I may understand it
better.

Thanks.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: What is the reasoning behind having NOTIFY be on by default?
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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