<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Marshall Crocker wrote:<br><br>> I saw that too when I did my survey last month. I said I would change
<br>> the update time from the morning hours to 9am - Midnight but never<br>> did. If everyone who does this survey changes then they'll end up<br>> with everyone switching to this time and their servers will be
<br>> overloaded during the 9am-Midnight hours. Maybe it's not asking<br>> everyone to do that?<br><br>Or, perhaps they're going to ask everyone to use specific times and<br>customize those times based on the user's location (
i.e. making sure<br>they specify the proper local time) and perhaps renewal date.<br><br>Just asking the whole world to use some time between 9:00am and midnight<br>would accomplish little (because 9:00am and midnight come at different
<br>times in each time zone)... Now, if they said, "Between 9am-Midnight<br>EST," that would be a different story... Also, if they really wanted to<br>get the message out, they could have easily put some info on the forum
<br>(Has anyone seen a post there? I couldn't find anything.) or even a<br>recommended download time on each user's account page.<br><br>So, I would say don't make any changes until you're explicitly asked to<br>do so. If anyone finds any specific instructions for the community at
<br>large, please let us know.<br><br>Mike<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
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<div>Maybe they're just trying to keep people out of their backup windows.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net> </div>