> 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.
Thank you, this just reminded by of another problem with e-mail templates.
You have no control over when they will be processed. It's very possible
that an e-mail registration could get delayed due to many factors (this
happened all the time when using netsol). With the API, you have
real-time registration with instant results. With e-mail, you would need
to wait and see if they got around to processing your request before
someone else submitted a request for the same domain via a real-time API.
> > 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.
Let me clarify that I meant "reseller" when I said "registrar" above. I
see people complaining that its too hard to develop scripts that process
via the API and that they would prefer e-mail processing. If they can't
code to the API, I'm not sure how they would expect to be able to code a
much more complex parser to receive the replies from opensrs...
-Bill
