> Personally, I think e-mail templates are a bad idea, in fact, I think the
> registration business has moved beyond the stage of legacy e-mail
> submissions (ala netsol).
Email templates still have one, yet-to-be-matched benefit. When I submit
one, I don't care if OpenSRS is down, busy, whatever, it gets through once
the systems are able to cope.
> The asynchronous nature of e-mail is the biggest problem. We are a .uk
> registrar (independent of Tucows/OpenSRS) and the "automation" system is
> the one thing I dislike about Nominet's system. We submit a request then
> wait.... did they receive it? was it accepted? we must wait for a
> reply... then when a reply is received, it must be parsed. Automating
> the parsing on the registrar end is a much greater task then getting a
> result back from a real-time API.
Much better, and the additional programming overhead is definitely worth it,
IMO.
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Dave Warren,
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