On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:52:24PM +, Rob Dixon wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 17:05, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> >Of course you can redefine the problem this way, but it's more interesting to
> >solve the original problem.
> >
> >To go with Rob's solution, here's something that's (more) correct:
> Hey
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From: "Jim Gibson"
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Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 2:30 PM, "Mike Blezien"
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On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 2:30 PM, "Mike Blezien"
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> From: "Jim Gibson"
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> Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
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On 09/02/2011 17:05, Paul Johnson wrote:
Of course you can redefine the problem this way, but it's more interesting to
solve the original problem.
To go with Rob's solution, here's something that's (more) correct:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
my ($messages, $time_period) = @ARG
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From: "Jim Gibson"
To: "Perl List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 1:05 PM, "Mike Blezien"
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From: "P
On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 1:05 PM, "Mike Blezien"
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> From: "Paul Johnson"
> To: "Uri Guttman"
> Cc: "Mike Blezien" ; "Perl List"
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM
> Subje
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From: "Paul Johnson"
To: "Uri Guttman"
Cc: "Mike Blezien" ; "Perl List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wr
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From: "Paul Johnson"
To: "Uri Guttman"
Cc: "Mike Blezien" ; "Perl List"
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wr
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
>
> >> as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed
> >> intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough
> >> for those types of people. this is clo
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:
> On 07/02/2011 21:30, Mike Blezien wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per
>> day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For
>> example if
>> 50 messages are scheduled to be sent
> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
>> as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed
>> intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough
>> for those types of people. this is close to one message an hour so there
>> is plenty of variability within
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> - Original Message -
> From: Uri Guttman
> To: Mike Blezien
> Cc: Perl List ; Mike McClain
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 5:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
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From: "Uri Guttman"
To: "Mike Blezien"
Cc: "Perl List" ; "Mike McClain"
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
"MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> What t
On 07/02/2011 21:30, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per
day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For example if
50 messages are scheduled to be sent out in 24 hr time period we want to
randomize the times
> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> What they have right now are about 25 messages they wish to spread
MB> out through out a 24hr period so they are sent out randomly during
MB> this 24 period, not a pre determined every X minutes or X
MB> hours. Why I'm not really sure, but that'
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
>>>>> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> Uri,
MB> yes that does make sense but that's what the customer wants :)
MB> There always right aren't they !!
th
> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> Uri,
MB> yes that does make sense but that's what the customer wants :)
MB> There always right aren't they !!
then do something very simple. send a message every N minutes where N is
randomly picked from say 5-10. they will never know it wasn't a mor
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From: Uri Guttman
To: Mike Blezien
Cc: Perl List ; Mike McClain
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
>>>>> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> it isn't for spam I assure you. A client of ou
> "MB" == Mike Blezien writes:
MB> it isn't for spam I assure you. A client of ours sends out 25-50,
MB> messages/quotes, a day to various spiritual web sites. And they
MB> have already been approved by the web sites they are posted
MB> too. They just wanted a solution to randomize wh
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Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:30:03PM -0600, Mike Blezien wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per
> day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For
> Hope this
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:30:03PM -0600, Mike Blezien wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per
> day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For
> Hope this makes sense, and someone may have done this before or may have
> some in
Thanks Jim, this helps allot. You've given me a good starting point. Appreciate
the help.
Mike
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From: Jim Gibson
To: Perl List
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On 2/7/11 Mon Feb 7, 2011 1:
On 2/7/11 Mon Feb 7, 2011 1:30 PM, "Mike Blezien"
scribbled:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per
> day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For example
> if
> 50 messages are scheduled to be sent out in 24 hr time per
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