llamaserver email madness

[Snacktime]

Make it stop! It's sending me an email every 5 minutes to tell me about the patch.

[Folket]

Yes, very annoying.

[Folket]

I will block mails from llamaserver till this is fixed.

[Zylithan]

it keeps me company when i am lonely, my friendly llama server

[The_Tauren13]

i feel popular...

[The_Tauren13]

http://shoulung.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/spam.jpg

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

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

[Caduceus]

It is a magical well of repetition. Gather 'round and be astonished.

[Jazzepi]

I think I should sign llamabeast up for one porn site, magazine subscription, and/or e-mail based news service for every extraneous e-mail I've gotten.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Jazzepi

[BigandScary]

I'm at 84 emails!

[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... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Janlm]

at least everyone playing on llamaserver now definitly know that we got a new patch, its hard to miss http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Zylithan]

Janlm said:
at least everyone playing on llamaserver now definitly know that we got a new patch, its hard to miss http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif



Wait.. what? A patch? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[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.

[Caduceus]

We appreciate all your efforts, llamabeast, these things happen.

[lch]

That was a sign: you should embark on a career in unsolicited bulk messaging instead of messing with these strange PBEMs. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[llamabeast]

Well I was thinking, if I'd only signed a deal to include a viagra advert in all those e-mails I could be loaded now!

(not really of course, it only sent O(20000) e-mails(!), which is nothing compared to a genuine spamming campaign, and of course repeating the recipients makes it much less effective!)

Does anyone want any viagra, by the way?

[Amhazair]

Once I manage to regain the magical lands where sex is a reallity instead of a myth I'll remember your offer. For now I'm not in any urgent need of Viagra though, thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Edit: Obviously this is just a joke and any possible similarity to any real life person, activity, or lack thereoff is purely coïncidential.

[Loren]

Still a little glitch:

Game: Mongoose
Turn number 37
Next turn due: 10:41 GMT on Thursday October 11th

Caelum 2h file received
Abysia 2h file received
R'lyeh 2h file received
Marignon 2h file received
Ulm Waiting for 2h file
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Pangaea 2h file received

Last updated at 00:45 GMT on Thursday October 11th.
Current time: 00:42 GMT



Does it have some magic ability to update in the future???