Not always online capsules

[Alice]

On 22 September 2021 08:52:37 BST, Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> wrote:
>
>Love the idea, I'm tempting to drafting something in my client ^^"

Awesome !


>I think it's better to use a free-form text instead of trying to come up
>with a strict syntax to communicate when the capsule should be online.
>I'm not convinced it is worth for robots to know these schedules, given
>all the complex schedule one can have (and the rabbit hole for the
>"perfect" syntax that covers all possible situations is pretty deep.)

Agreed - as someone pointed out in this thread, the only thing that can cover all cases is a scripting language - which would be too complex an approach imo. And even that wouldn't cater for unpredictable schedules (e.g. "my capsule is available when I'm on #some-irc-channel")

Best to deal with the simple, human oriented scenario first.


>
>There are registrar that disallow txt records?  Lot of other services
>(gitlab pages comes to mind for example) requires user to set TXT
>records.

Also SPF and dkim require TXT records - and these are needed for anyone who wants email at their own domain.

My registrar hides TXT records under an "Advanced" tab, but it's available.

:-)
Alice