I'm trying it with MSN Messenger, and have received nothing in days. Cannot use the command "leave". And trying to join again says I'm already registered.
Is it borked? On 2/17/06, Ladetto, Juan (Sistemas LANACION.com) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Mario. I'm working at www.lanacion.com.ar and I'm very interested in this > development. > In which language did you do it? Or, what libraries did you use to build it? > I was surfing through the internet but I couldn't find any project that help > me. > Could you give me some extra information? thanks for you time. > > Regards > Juan > > > ________________________________ > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Mario Menti > Enviado el: Jueves, 09 de Febrero de 2006 08:40 a.m. > Para: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Asunto: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM > > > Another late night, another IM bot... > > Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes > news to them automatically, without you having to request it. So I sat down > last night and implemented something like this (pretty raw in its current > state): > > - you contact the bot to register you interest > - the bot sends out the latest 5 headlines from the BBC news page every hour > (on the hour) to all those registered > - and of course, you can contact the bot again to remove yourself from the > list > > If anyone wants to try it out and let me know what they think, here's the > details: > > Google Talk and Jabber users, contact "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > MSN users contact " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > AIM users contact "bbcnewsflash" > > As I said, this is still very experimental, so don't be too surprised if it > doesn't always work... but I'd be interested in people's feelings in > general, whether something like this is useful (or just annoying..). > > One obivous next step would be to be able to select the type of news you > want (currently it's just the 5 items most recently updated in UK version of > the news feed) by registering keywords, or being able to pick news by > category. > > Cheers, > Mario. > > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
