RE: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-07 Thread Martin Belam
ening on BBC One. In fact BBC One being interupted is one of the criteria for switching it over. all the best, m -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matthew Somerville Sent: Tue 06/09/2005 9:24 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] breaking news a

Re: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Somerville
Murray wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:53:49PM +0100, Matthew Somerville wrote: Do you mean you want http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3533099.stm and/or http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/email/breakingnews ? :) I don't think so. Last time I checked, they both issue emails at least once a day. Mor

Re: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-06 Thread Murray
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:53:49PM +0100, Matthew Somerville wrote: > Do you mean you want http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3533099.stm > and/or > http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/email/breakingnews ? :) I don't think so. Last time I checked, they both issue emails at least once a day. More frequent t

RE: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Dicken
> I'd really like to get it to trigger an sms alert as well, but I've no idea how this could be done easily and > without incurring costs. Pointers welcome. https://www.aspsms.com/ works on some form of credit based system and certainly has enough of an automated transport mechanism to allow jabb

Re: [backstage] breaking news alerts

2005-09-06 Thread Matthew Somerville
Murray wrote: What I want is an alert when something *really* big happens. Like when the www.bbc.co.uk homepage flips into "Breaking News" mode [2]. Do you mean you want http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3533099.stm and/or http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/email/breakingnews ? :) So with a little he