Re: [Addanc-developer] A Possible Addanc Extension

[Joe G. <joe...@us...>]

My first reaction was ... yea, just change the protocol and away you go...

Second thoughts... the mail protocol is not strickly send/receive .. and the
process you describe requires coupling two transactions...while this may be
accomplished in addanc, I think you may rewrite moe than you reuse.

Final thoughts, addanc may not be the best framework for a set of cooperating
agents...it would provide the scheduling and "lifetime" support for a type of
agent, but it doesn't provide any other import features of an agent framework;
e.g., interaction/communicaion between agents.

While I think it's neat to try to exapand addanc, I'm not too sure that addanc
will provide enough support to make this set of agents work.

--
Joe Griffin
Addanc
Downright Software Collective

Quoting Doug Fort <dou...@do...>:

> The current VC is strictly set up for HTTP. I have an itch to scratch that
> might fit with addanc in a different protocol.
>
> As an unemployed drone, I am very interested in receiving my email promptly.
> I
> have several accounts (4) all forwarded to the Horde server. For various
> reasons, I sometimes don't get mail from one or more accounts; or it takes a
> long time.
>
> When I'm worried about it, I send out test emails to see when I get them. I'm
> thinking about automating this procedure as an ongoing QOS check.
>
> The idea is to send out timestamped emails to each of my accounts at some
> interval, say once an hour. Then have an agent watching my inbox for these
> mails to record and report the elapsed time. Ideally, there should be some
> form of alert if an expected mail fails to arrive in a specified interval.
>
> I'm contemplating developing this as an exercise. However, in the abstract,
> the functionality seems analogous to addanc. With the proposed scripting
> capability, I wonder if addanc could be made flexible enough to handle this
> requirement.
>
> --
> Doug Fort
> Addanc
> Downright Software Collective
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