Well, I just got one of these too. I must admit its pretty cool to
see this feature, but you're right in your complain. This is true for
"my" site as it seems to be down now. This is the same site that
caused me to find that cache bug the other day -- they just have
intermittent problems :(
It doesn't look to me though that this is doen for "someone", and you
wouldn't get this from people using the handler and it being
broken. That would be just silly. This looks to me like Newsclipper
site itself doing all the testing on all handlers once a day. So I'm
pretty sure it always gets the latest handler version.
I'm not sure how this will turnout over time, perhaps we need to give
it a week or two to settle down, But David have you done/thought about
how to avoid some of the unecessary ones? Perhaps send mail only if
the handler has been broken _twice_ in a row? Or if handler is still
broken dont send the same message every day? I'm just throwing these
ideas out for discussion.
Btw, David a little bit of heads-up warning about implementing this
feature on the list would've been nice too. [And how come 1.17 was
announced on Freshmeat and not here?]
-Vadim
ljp writes:
> I just got an email about an automatic broken handler notification, and I
> have just tried it, and it does work. Is there any check for the current
> version of the "broken" handler ( in the broken handler notification), or a
> double check to see if something happened in the network to make it not
> work? I don't want to be getting this email everytime someone's connection
> is bad, or the site is down, or is using an old version that IS broken. A
> lot of the time, I have found some handler didn't work one time, and then I
> try it again soon afterwards, and it works. I do like the idea about this,
> tho. Just needs some kinks work out.
> LP
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