On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:26:58PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote: > Brad, like I said earlier, - it's a lot of work for little effective > gain and opens up a number of holes or potential areas for concern. > > I think we just need to accept that very infrequently shit happens and > move along.
As I was saying, the more reliable the box gets, the more you depend on it, and the more angry you get when it loses a show for you that you wouldn't have lost if you had been watching live (the old way.) I don't think e-mailed, signed zap2it style XML would open up any holes, for those of us who have e-mail servers. Listing problems are not actually infrequent. From my own experience, I expect others also encounter a few every month. Doesn't seem like much, but that's multiplied by every user. If a system exists so that the first user to discover a listing problem (on a popular show at least) fixes it for everybody else, that's actually a pretty big win, since the result, lost shows, is a bad one. The suggestion of something fancier than e-mail mostly comes from the fact that it could implement other useful things for the future. A lot of data really should be PUSHed (E-mail style) rather than polled (mythfilldatabase, rss and web style). When it's time for those apps to flourish, they would make good use of such a system. Starting with e-mail might make sense for those of us who have an e-mail server on our networks.
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