[geenew]

Probably worth mentioning that, at a place I worked at in the XP era, we used net send in the way it was probably intended: to send short messages to other people on the same network. The same type of day-to-day stuff that is sent over Teams today. The * usage was known but not used often, and not outright abused (though it may have been overused, given the level of annoyance it could generate).

I always found the *nix 'talk' command much more annoying, since it would throw off the screen drawing for programs like pine.