It seems that the pty's being set with write-permission for the group. However, the group is unique (a different value for each pty).
The user can of course write to the pty, but it seems that mesg is reporting on group+other -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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