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Centralized Box Registry/Scheduler?
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lugnet.market.jambalaya
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Date:
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:01:03 GMT
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Hi,
Is there any interest in having a centralized box registry and
scheduler? Since Todd first presented the idea of a travelling trade
box I've been thinking about what would be necessary to help automate
the process of mailing list generation.
I've hacked together a prototype web-based database system to track
multiple boxes and distribute them among any number of users in a fair
rotation.
Users are placed in a queue in the order they signed up. When a box is
ready to be shipped, simply ask the database for the next name in the
queue. Of course, more complex features may be added such that a user
could set a preference for "theme" boxes or temporarily halt shipments
to them without losing their place in the queue.
I've been working out some of the details of a logging system to track
a box's history and ensure the continuation of the journey. I'll
probably fiddle a bit more with it this weekend.
If there is any interest in this, I'd be happy to set it up and run it
for a while. I've been lurking on Lugnet for a couple of months and
finally found a way to contribute something :)
If you have any feature suggestions, please let me know and I'll see
what I can do.
John
jkornhaus@xperts.com
--
AFOL and his money are soon parted.
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