Subj : RE: Shazrad]corrections To : All From : royall@hal-pc.org Date : Wed Aug 02 2000 05:53 am From: "Scott Royall" Subject: RE: Shazrad]corrections What does :-p mean to you? -----Original Message----- From: scott@conchbbs.com [mailto:scott@conchbbs.com] On Behalf Of yl112@cornell.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of AD&D MAILING LIST Subject: RE: Shazrad]corrections Yune will respond on her own time. :-p On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Scott Royall wrote: > That's a fair question deserving a fair answer. However, I really should > explain that read-only access for the echo would essentially turn the posts > into a string of ads for a game elsewhere. That's against the echo rules > because we don't the echo becoming a dumping ground for ads to other places. That's fine. To be perfectly honest, we don't *need* any more advertisement. We're already starting to swim in apps. > As to your question, I'll answer in conceptual terms as best as I can. You > need to contact the admins of your chosen server and request that they > arrange to have the following whenever an email for a specified address is > received: > > 1. Move the email to a specified location accessible to your web account. > 2. Execute some sort of object you create. This object can be a program, > script, etc which determines if the email applies to your game (probably by > the subject field) and then: > * Format a copy of the email as a web page and add it to your web. > * Forward the email to your mailing list. > Yes, it is that easy in theory. Yet, you are correct in thinking no sane > operator of a public server will want to cooperate. Item 2 alone is enough > of a show-stopper because of the leaps of faith required. Even omitting > Conch (which has the "hooks" for doing both items built into its gating > software), there are still many facilities that can accommodate you. Good > grief, you're at Cornell, one of the most liberal joints in the world! If > you can't find an unsuspecting web server, a sympathetic admin, and scores > of eager young programmer-wannabes there, you're in dire straits!:) *I'm* at Cornell. That doesn't mean I have access to all its computing resources, and Yune is the more technical expert of the two of us. "Liberal" doesn't to my knowledge include that sort of use of computer resources. We get 2 MB of space for websites, and that's about it, which is why I'm on freeservers. I know lots of engineering students, but have been out of touch with the CS folks ever since giving up on that major. :-p > Of course I'm really telling you to automate your site even if you never > forward a single post to this echo. Otherwise, we all know what will happen > when next semester hits its stride. Universities tend to bury *most* > students in work about the same time. I'm sorry if this isn't what you > wanted to read, but cutting extra slack for na#ve young GMs has grown old > over the years. :/ Doesn't matter to us one way or the other, actually. It would have been nice to run the game in conjunction with the echo, in the sense that it might've breathed in a little new life and possibly allowed fido-only people who were interested to play...but we can't supply everyone with internet connections and computers, either. I will have to wait on Yune's input, but it's likely that we'll withdraw the application and just run independently. Automation? *Other* than the echo, the mailing lists *are* as automated as they need to be. Yune and I have been getting a steady stream of posts--the machinery works. :-) Yune's Shadows on the Sands pbem has been running for longer than the Black Wall; we are both good at working together as writers; and as I discovered with Andrew Toth's generous help and am discovering in a tabletop campaign I'm jointly running with Joseph Betzwieser, co-GMing is exponentially *easier.* Thanks for your thoughts, though. YHL waiting on Yune's input -- |Fidonet: yl112@cornell.edu |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. -- |Fidonet: royall@hal-pc.org |Internet: scott@conchbbs.com | | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. --- # Origin: (1:106/357.99) * Origin: ConchGate (1:106/357.0) .