David Coppit writes:
> [In case you have no idea what's going on, I wrote a utility that
> automatically checks every handler, and sends email to the handler author if
> the handler is broken. I know I don't keep up with every handler I've written.
> :) ]
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Vadim Strizhevsky wrote:
>
> > It doesn't look to me though that this is doen for "someone", and you
> > wouldn't get this from people using the handler and it being
> > broken. That would be just silly. This looks to me like Newsclipper
> > site itself doing all the testing on all handlers once a day. So I'm
> > pretty sure it always gets the latest handler version.
>
> Right. I'm using the example web pages as the source of the News Clipper
> messages.
>
> > I'm not sure how this will turnout over time, perhaps we need to give
> > it a week or two to settle down, But David have you done/thought about
> > how to avoid some of the unecessary ones? Perhaps send mail only if
> > the handler has been broken _twice_ in a row?
>
> I'll implement three in a row -- if the handler is broken for three days in a
> row, a message is sent. I thought about that, but wanted to get feedback
> first. (This should make option #1 in the message unnecessary.)
That would work.
>
> > Or if handler is still broken dont send the same message every day?
>
> If I implement the above, it would get sent every three days. I guess it would
> be better not to nag people, but the problem is that it's easy for people to
> ignore the message and never do anything about it.
That's fine. I was suggesting it in case you cept the "everyday" mail,
but once every 3 days is fine. And if you do get two on the same
handler than it probably means something more serious.
>
> > Btw, David a little bit of heads-up warning about implementing this
> > feature on the list would've been nice too.
>
> I figured the emails would be the heads up. :)
Hehe :) It was. I must admit the feature is _cool_.
>
> > [And how come 1.17 was announced on Freshmeat and not here?]
>
> Hm... I announced it on newsclipperosannlist, which I thought had
> newsclipperlist on it -- I've just fixed that. (Subscribe to
> newsclipperosannlist if you just want announcements. Subscribe to
> newsclipperlist if you want user messages and announcements. Subscribe to
> newsclipperdevlist if you want developer messages.)
Ahh, that must've been the problem. I only subscribe to
newsclipperlist and newsclipperdevlist. But I've assumed that
announcements will go here as well.
Thanks,
Vadim
>
> David
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> David Coppit
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> President, Spinnaker Software
>
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