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To: SI Brad who wrote (643)3/6/1998 3:22:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (2) of 32871
 
Brad - I got an idea.

Most people here (except for me) don't have time to sit and keep clicking 'Refresh' to see if we have any messages. We could be productively spending our time doing other things while waiting for message replies.

I don't go in and check my email every 10 minutes to see if I have a message. I've got a little background program that sits in the task bar that will check that for me. Every five minutes, it calls up the mail server and checks. Then, if I have a new message, it pops up a message box and warns me.

A program such as this could probably be written now for SI. It would just request the Inbox page every 5 minutes, then hack the output to determine if a new message is available. This might prove to load your servers too much, if many people started using it. The Inbox page not only finds the message ID's of the new messages, but joins these with another table to get the beginning lines of these messages. Also, it consults your personal preferences to see what kind of formatting options you have. Also, it has to package this up nicely into an HTML page to spit out to the user. Not something you want everybody doing every few minutes, automatically.

But, if you created a light interface.... maybe just spit out a delimited list of reply IDs of any new messages. Not even HTML formatted. This might prove feasible. I'm not suggesting that you write the client software, but only provide a URL to access such a "light interface". I'm sure if you committed to an interface, someone would be glad to write the client for SI. This would be a useful service to the members.

~Mitch
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