Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM
The IM server restarts too much. My friends don't boing more than once or twice a day. On 3/3/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/3/06, Kirk Northrop[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick B wrote: You obviously fixed it. I then left as every hour was too annoying. Can I get an update when I want ... e.g I want every 3 hours between 7am and 12am... Just a thought. Other than that, quite okay, it started working the last few days. Indeed, works fine(ish) here too, but hourly is a bit much ;) Thanks for everyone's feedback, sounds like the original problem is now solved/worked around. Re. the frequency of the newsflashes, there are a number of improvements and new features being planned, which will include being able to select frequency of newsflashes in addition to some level of personalisation wrt the types of headlines delivered. I'll keep you posted... 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/
Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM
You obviously fixed it. I then left as every hour was too annoying. Can I get an update when I want ... e.g I want every 3 hours between 7am and 12am... Just a thought. Other than that, quite okay, it started working the last few days. On 2/25/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/25/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Brickley wrote: I guess the AIM version works then. I also signed up for MSN flavour of the bot, but haven't had any newsflashes... Same here. Probably best to take this off-list. From the sound of it, it seems there is a problem with pushing the messages to some MSN subscribers. I'll have a look at it next week when I get some time. In the meantime, it would be useful if people that have tried the MSN bot could let me know whether or not they are receiving the messages (email me privately please) - I tried it myself with a couple of MSN accounts, and it worked with both, so some more info would be useful to try and narrow it down. 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/
Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM
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/
