On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Incidentally, one of the downsides of notifications posted at AN and ANI is that they are only there until the bots archive them (that's only a day for ANI) unless someone replies (unlikely) or various tricks are used to ensure archiving doesn't take place until the poll is over (or for a set period like 3 or 4 days).
Perhaps the archive bots can be coded to not archive any thread with this HTML comment...
"<!-- sticky -->"
That would require manual archiving.
Better, IMO, to have a set "notice" period for each venue, and to "post-date" the notice, so the bot archives it at the end of that notice period. It's easy to fool bots like that! :-)
You could code the "notice period" into the bot as well. So both methods would work.
Carcharoth