At 9/14/01 4:42 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> You're suggesting there's logic in making OpenSRS spend hundreds of
>> person-hours
>
>> explain how you could create the exact same thing in an afternoon
>>
>
>There's some sort of discrepancy, isn't it? ;-) Probably not even an
>afternoon on Jupiter would provide for this.
You snipped the important part of what I wrote.
I said it would take OpenSRS hundreds of person-hours "to design, create,
document, and support a generic e-mail gateway". Any generic API that's
going to be available to thousands of people needs large amounts of
design, documentation and support.
You, on the other hand, already have a working design, including the
format of the e-mail messages that get passed back and forth. Since you
would need to do zero design, zero support, and probably zero
documentation (either you already have some for your system or you don't
care about it), it could be done very quickly.
So yes, I stand by the full text of what I wrote: it would take OpenSRS
at least hundreds of hours to properly develop something that would meet
the needs of every possible user, but it would take you only a couple of
hours to replace one perl script in your existing specialized system and
get the exact same effect (as far as your system is concerned).
I'd be happy to do it for you if you feel you'd have difficulty doing it
yourself; as I said, I've done something very similar. Contact me offlist
for rates.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
