i’m thinking a little of making a mailbot to bust newswalls and paste content in. now that everyone’s left (uhh?), maybe it will get easier<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">the big showstopper is having a server to run it on, and the surprise is that i actually have 1-3 servers i think that i am paying for monthly, i just forget that i have them really aggressively (hence the high number 3).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">so if i assume i have a server already, maybe i could start working on something.</div><div dir="auto">i’m thinking i might feel less scared if i stayed off github, unsure (thinking maybe of posting occasional codeballs here instead unsure — occasional! concise!)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">the frequency of the list is small enough to use python i think, which is my most recent language</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">uhhhh so parts could include</div><div dir="auto">- fetching email</div><div dir="auto">- using websites</div><div dir="auto">- sending email</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">traditionally it’s the second item that’s the hardest, as well as the most interesting.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">maybe i could try a high level stub approach.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">since success seems unlikely soon, maybe instead i’ll look up new python threading paradigms</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>