Re: Agents service?

On 25 Apr 2007 14:57:28 -0700, <mark.hoemmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was thinking today about an "agents service." The idea is that you
set up "agents" -- little scripts that accomplish tasks for you like
sending out an announcement e-mail constructed from a form (I'm not a
spammer -- I manage a seminar talk series and send out weekly
announcements), searching the 'net and compiling an RSS feed of the
day's goodies, or the like. You set up each agent to execute
periodically, much like a *nix cron job.

My questions for y'all are:

1. Has this been done before? Has it been done for CL?

I've been running those for awhile, but I don't need your fancy
clutter. cron handles this fine, running compiled lisp, easy with
cmucl and linux. The agent tasks you cite don't need the system you
suggest.


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