<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">------------------------------<br><br>Message: 33<br>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:19:55 -0800
<br>From: John Biundo <<a href="mailto:johnbiundo@sbcglobal.net">johnbiundo@sbcglobal.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Alternatives to DataDirect?<br>To: Discussion about mythtv <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:43F1141B.5090506@sbcglobal.net">43F1141B.5090506@sbcglobal.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Isaac Richards wrote:
<br>> They've stopped limiting the data (see their forums for the announcement).<br>><br>> However: Please, don't everyone go out and manually refresh their data right<br>> now. Just let myth update it automatically as it normally would. It won't
<br>> make any difference at all to the data you'll get, you won't miss any<br>> recordings, and won't cause a bigass spike on their servers.<br>><br>> Isaac<br><br>[snip]<br>I'm suggesting that there be some high-visibility communication (ie.,
<br>from Isaac would be best, IMHO) explaining the issue and how to comply<br>with best practices. As Tom at zap2it mentioned, all those who were<br>likely to comply with this behavior with a little nudge have probably<br>
already done so. A highly visible announcement might provide the larger<br>nudge to move the rest of us, and set the expectation going forward for<br>new users. Reviewing installation and howto docs (the rest of us, not
<br>Isaac ;-) to make sure they spell this out would also be a good idea.<br></blockquote></div><br>If there are truly people requesting too much data, they could also flag those individual users as a problem and send them warning emails. I would be glad to run some randomizing algorithm, but I can't help but wonder if it would be easier if DataDirect would actuall _assign_ a time (a couple of options?) for my updates. That way, they could keep track of the expected bandwidth and server impacts.
<br><br>Just a thought.<br><br>T<br>