Reminds me of a friend's snail-based email service [1] which also had slow delivery time.
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#12With Boomerang for Gmail, you can send a message/receive at a random time. You might want to ask them how popular it is before pushing forward.
Just a side project, as far as pushing forward, I'm pretty done :)
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#13Nice one :). Good tool to add a little randomness into life - several months is enough time to forget about all the messages one sent to one's friends. And then, one day, somebody gets the message and replies... :).
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#14Nice one :). Good tool to add a little randomness into life - several months is enough time to forget about all the messages one sent to one's friends. And then, one day, somebody gets the message and replies... :).
Thanks, I'll be sure to enable replying to the originating email address... :)
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#15So how many messages have you gotten queued today?
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#16So how many messages have you gotten queued today?
The response has been amazing! The DB currently has 153 messages, 3 hours after launch... :)
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#17As a computer scientist, one wonders what kind of randomness? Is the date picked uniformly at random, or is there a bias involved (for example, a negative bias towards the coming days)?
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#18That reminds me of something I've been thinking about again and again over the past years. Is there any reliable way to send myself a message that I would receive, say, 40 years from today. So far I haven't been able to come up with a good solution.
Lets say you get cheapo hosting @ $5/month. 40 years = $2400, which isn't a terrible investment. Although you'd probably want a VPS where you can ensure that the OS setup doesn't change over 40 years...
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#19So... what are you going to do with everyone's emails? (Besides delivering their past messages)
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#20As a computer scientist, one wonders what kind of randomness? Is the date picked uniformly at random, or is there a bias involved (for example, a negative bias towards the coming days)?
The exact second is picked uniformly at random using an approximation of 30 days per month. The code is:
my $sendAt = time + int(rand()*86400*30*5) + 86400*30;