llamaserver email madness

[Caduceus]

For the spam lovers (no baked beans)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

[Zylithan]

Jazzepi - I had a friend who did that to his boss every time he got really annoyed at him. The boss changed his email address about every year and a half.

[Cor2]

I just deleted 120. It took three clicks. I love gmail!

[sum1lost]

Lazy_Perfectionist said:
It's still bombarding me, so I sets up a filter. Voila. All messages with 'New dominions version available!' go straight to trash.

Same.

Easy solution.

[Dedas]

This is fun...

[Janlm]

at least everyone playing on llamaserver now definitly know that we got a new patch, its hard to miss

[Zylithan]

Janlm said:
at least everyone playing on llamaserver now definitly know that we got a new patch, its hard to miss

Wait.. what? A patch?

[llamabeast]

Hi guys,

Really really sorry about this - a significant cock-up on my part. Hope you've all managed to clean out the spam without accruing too much fury.

[Cor2]

I think we are all taking it in pretty good spirits. no harm done.

[llamabeast]

Basically the scheme was like this:

if (llamaServer receives a 2h file from a newer version) then
- Send out an e-mail to everyone
- Postpone all hostings by 24 hours
- Shut self down

Unfortunately the last step there was malfunctioning, due to a missing and crucial '>'. So it did the same thing every five minutes over the whole night. Also it postponed all hostings till February! But I've fixed that now.

The difficulty really was that I had no way to test it when I wrote it. Normally I test things quite a lot to be sure they work (I seem to suffer from rampant typos). So I was worried it might not work, but it never occurred to me that it would go crazy.