On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:47, Tim Starling wrote:
Is it just for
Brisbane, Queensland?
An easier thing to do might be to request the change be made from the
backend instead.
No, it's not just for Brisbane, Queensland, it's for whatever I need it for
in the future. In the near future, there's a few other cities and towns I
want to move. And it wouldn't be easier in terms of human effort, since the
bot's already written and ready to go. It's only ~70 lines -- it's rather
scary how easy these things are, especially since it's one of the first
things I've ever written in perl and it only took me a few hours. Of course
there's the issue of swamping RC -- if someone is happy to do it from the
backend to reduce the annoyance level, then that's alright with me.
-- Tim Starling
We'd be much better off if we add the needed functionality on the
serverside, I believe.
If you could describe exactly what the problem is that you wrote the
code to solve, that would be very helpful.
I'm not saying "don't ever run this"; I'm saying that we should
think
about the consequences of this.
I really think we should err on the side of not worrying so much about
"fixing" links, if the redirects go to the right place. Redirects don't
affect the functionality for the user, and because of that, there should
be a degree of intransigence about adding complexity/running bots to fix
a problem that isn't much of a problem.
Please send me the code.