notifications in zmacs

[David M. J. Saslav <saz at MIT-OZ>]

Could someone hack ZMACS so that upon return from responding to
a notification
or visiting some other program (after having been notified
of the need to visit by a notification at the bottom of the screen
beneath the ZMACS line), that notification would be cleared?

It is very confusing to have to recheck, say, my telnet connection
because my bottom minibuffer still reads "Process Terminal-1 
wants to type out", etc.

I realize this would be difficult to do, since there are so many
different types of notifications, but I would like to know what
the tradeoffs involved in its implementation would actually be.

saz