Re: [spoon-discuss] options for automating my life

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 01:18 AM, David E. Smith wrote:

> A lot of things in this game can be somewhat automated, if we can work 
> out
> a vaguely secure way to do stuff via the B Nomic web site.
>
> I'm just not entirely sure how to set that sort of thing up -- not 
> from a
> programming point of view so much as a social point of view.
>
> For instance, let's say there's a Web-based voting interface. This 
> would
> not be too hard to set up, since I already use one :-) Would the Web 
> form,
> by itself, be considered sufficient? Or should the Web form 
> automatically
> send out email notifications to the list?

Under the rules, at least, you're empowered to designate the web form 
as a public forum for the purposes of voting, so there would be no need 
to notify the list.

> (I'd really suggest for this that we eventually set up another list,
> spoon-robots or something, that's considered a public forum, but to 
> which
> no humans can post - we can all subscribe and be happy.)

Perhaps ministers could make periodic reports there as well?

> What would be an 'acceptable' level of security for this sort of thing?
> Can I get away with just setting up passwords for everyone, sending out
> private emails, and letting that be that? (I can retrofit things like
> 'players changing their passwords' later.)

That'd work fine for me.

> Just as important, if there were, say, a Web-based voting form, would
> anyone actually use it? I don't want to invest too much effort in
> something that won't be used/useful.

If enough of the game were available from web forms, I could see the 
website taking over spoon-business' role as primary forum.

Or the other possibility is to set up an email interface, so that for 
voting, for example, we'd send in a message in a predetermined format, 
say:
<proposalnumber>:<vote>
<proposalnumber>:<vote>
etc.

and a script would do the rest.

--
Wonko
Award Wonko a Win.
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