[Mpls-pm] Report on Meeting - Dec 13

[Joshua ben Jore]

On 12/15/06, Ian Malpass <ian at indecorous.com> wrote:
> Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > Your reply reminds me of that thinkgeek shirt about shell scripts[1].
> > Maybe this is for a future meeting, but couldn't we write a auto-badger
> > script? (In perl of course.)
>
> Well, cron and Mail::Mailer (or whatever your email-sending module of
> choice is) would do it. Really, all it needs to do is send a mail on the
> second Tuesday of each month apologising for not having organised a
> technical meeting and promising one for the next month.
>
> Right. This seems suitable lightning talk: someone needs to volunteer to
> demonstrate the use of the Mail::Mailer (or Email::Send or whatever)
> module, with a case study of a script that can be cron'd monthly to send
> an apologetic email. Or MIME::Lite if you fancy. Or all three. Or more.
>
> > Maybe we would need a robotics component as well for real-world badgering.
>
> I for one welcome our robotic badger overlords.

Give it Algorithm::MarkovChain and the stuff people have previously
sent in about promises and apologies and then you've got some
automated email content.

Josh