Instead of having people subscribe to a separate mailing list, couldn't
you set it up to send an email to ba-autox? And doesn't Jerry do that
(albeit with less fancy programming) already?
phil
--- Carl Merritt <cmerritt@ati.com> wrote:
> > > Hey! watch out! You get everybody pinging the site every
> > > few minutes, you'll swamp the server, or cost SCCA more money
> for
> > > a higher level of service.
>
> Yeah, I know, if done improperly (I.E. no delay between retries) it
> could
> easily swamp both our connections. However, I'm targeting something
> in the
> range of one ping every 5 minutes or so, which only translates to 288
> hits a
> day, and only on the days when we are expecting imminent results
> being
> posted. Your Apache server can handle at least 288 hits at every few
> _seconds_, so I really doubt I'll even be a blip on your statistics
> reports.
> However, if there does prove to be ANY problems please let me know
> ASAP and
> I'll kill the bot.
>
> As far as everybody pinging your site, I would hope that wouldn't
> happen.
> That's the whole reason I'm setting my bot up to send an announcement
> email
> to a public email list people can subscribe to, so it only takes one
> bot and
> a few pings to notify a bunch of people.
>
> > > This time there is a delay because our Pat is under the weather.
> > > Keep yer shirt on!
>
> ARG!!! Post-event/pre-results life in an indexed class is SO
> stressful...
>
> =)
>
> -Carl
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