Subj : Remote sysop paging dev questions
To   : Razor
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon May 14 2018 12:51 pm

  Re: Remote sysop paging dev questions
  By: Razor to All on Fri May 11 2018 09:31 pm

 Ra> I previously wrote a remote sysop pager notification system & I think it
 Ra> should be updated. It originally consisted of a JavaScript that would send
 Ra> a notification to Growl on a Windows system. Growl for Windows is no
 Ra> longer being developed, so I feel I should at least update it to send the
 Ra> notification to Snarl.
 Ra> I wanted to gauge how everyone felt about this sort of "collection of
 Ra> tools working together" type of mentality before I start working on it,
 Ra> though. Is this ok, or would more sysops prefer a regular "Windows app"
 Ra> with an installer? Part of the thinking with using Snarl or some other
 Ra> true "notification" app, is that it already has built-in support for
 Ra> multiple notification options, including forwarding them to a smart phone.
 Ra> It's highly unlikely that I could support my own notification system that
 Ra> would provide as many options. 

Using a standard notification system is probably a good way to go..  One time I
wrote my own remote pager tool that I wrote as a C++ app that would connect to
itself running in server mode on my main PC, but the problem with that was that
if my main PC was turned off, the pager on the BBS would take longer because it
would fail to connect and then time out.  I'm not sure if Growl/Snarl has the
same issue (I suspect it doesn't, but that's just my guess, as I haven't used
Growl or Snarl).

Nightfox

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