Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Edward Brocklesby
On Monday 03 February 2003 10:32 pm, Jeremy Nelson wrote: > It seems that the current compromise solution seems to be acceptable to a > large number of people: [snip compromise that seems to be acceptable to a large number of people] This is fine by me. I would support intervals of less granulari

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Jeremy Nelson
nsx said: >> Yes, I am campaigning for both better precision, and a change of the lower >> notify interval limit. I suppose they sort of go hand in hand, since to >> either abolish or lower the lower limit, you'd probably need to provide >> better precision anyway. Kev said: >Personally, I don't

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Kev
> Yes, I am campaigning for both better precision, and a change of the lower > notify interval limit. I suppose they sort of go hand in hand, since to > either abolish or lower the lower limit, you'd probably need to provide better > precision anyway. Personally, I don't see the problem with the

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread john
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:48:30PM +, Edward Brocklesby wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the impression I got from nsx on IRC and in his > mail was that he wanted a notify interval of less than 60 seconds, which is > what I'm discussing here. > > I wouldn't have any problem with allow m

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Josh Rollyson
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:08:44PM -0500, Ben Winslow wrote: > Edward Brocklesby wrote: > [snip] > > and I'm not likely to talk to someone who's here for 30 seconds and then > > gone again > [snip] > > > > -larne. > > Try using dial-up service over the US's PSTN. ;) Nothing RFI chokes, modem

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Chip Norkus
On Mon Feb 03, 2003; 12:48PM + Edward Brocklesby propagated the following: > On Monday 03 February 2003 7:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > having finer granularity doesn't necessarily mean that it would be used to > > have notify interval shorter than 60 seconds. it would also allow notify >

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-03 Thread Edward Brocklesby
On Monday 03 February 2003 7:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > having finer granularity doesn't necessarily mean that it would be used to > have notify interval shorter than 60 seconds. it would also allow notify > intervals of, for example, 90 seconds. there still might be a lower limit > of 60 se

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-02 Thread lanzz
On 2003/02/02 15:26:55 +, Edward Brocklesby wrote: > While this is a somewhat.. hotly debated topic on IRC, and I don't want to > start that here, I will add my opinion; which is that I can't see a valid > reason for a notify interval of less than 60 seconds. However, on the other > hand:

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Winslow
Edward Brocklesby wrote: [snip] > and I'm not likely to talk to someone who's here for 30 seconds and then > gone again [snip] > > -larne. Try using dial-up service over the US's PSTN. ;) -- Ben msg00259/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-02-02 Thread Edward Brocklesby
On Thursday 30 January 2003 8:17 pm, john wrote: [notify interval should be shorter] While this is a somewhat.. hotly debated topic on IRC, and I don't want to start that here, I will add my opinion; which is that I can't see a valid reason for a notify interval of less than 60 seconds. Howeve

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-01-31 Thread MaXxX
On my part, I would also add that although EPIC does its best never to allow any RFC breakage (in other words: users who really want to send a PRIVMSG in an ON MSG cannot do so without a certain amount of hassle), there is no set standard pertaining to notify checking. On all non-RFC issues, EPIC h

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-01-30 Thread john
I'd assume that most users who would set notify_interval, would know what they're doing, but I may be wrong. I can certainly see the scenario in which a new user who likes to experiment, unsuspectingly sets this to what most would consider an unreasonable value (such as 1), but I also assume even

Re: [EPIC]notify interval proposal

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremy Nelson
Normally I would not follow up to a request for discussion, but nsx asked me to share why I believe in the status quo. The entirity of this message is not a statement of policy or rules or anything of the sort with regard to epic. It simply states my personal opinions as an epic user, and the rea