The Online World resources handbook
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Automatic communication http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/16.html<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Online</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>resources</strong> <strong>handbook</strong><br />
Chapter 16:<br />
Automatic communication<br />
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We all have different needs<br />
<strong>The</strong> minimum solution<br />
Auto logon to the Internet<br />
Auto logon with Procomm<br />
Macros<br />
Automating the full task<br />
Alternative 1: Write your own system<br />
Alternative 2: Use scripts made by others<br />
Alternative 3: Special software<br />
Alternative 4: Offline readers<br />
Automatic automation<br />
Limitations<br />
Automatic data communication as a development strategy.<br />
To get a lead on your competitors.<br />
To avoid duplication of effort.<br />
To reduce costs.<br />
To reduce boring and repetitive work.<br />
To avoid having to remember technical details.<br />
Automatic communication is both for professionals and amateurs. It helps keep your<br />
costs down. Also, it lets you do the job faster and safer. Sometimes, it is the only way to<br />
get the job done.<br />
We all have different needs<br />
Automation will never be the same for everybody. Our needs are too different.<br />
Some get excited when a program can dial a bulletin board, retrieve a program, and<br />
then disconnect without having to touch the keyboard.<br />
Some want an "answering machine" that can respond to and forward email when<br />
he or she is away from the office.<br />
Others want a communications system that can tap selected news sources, search<br />
databases, and do post processing on the retrieved material.<br />
For most professionals, doing things manually takes too much time. Time is better<br />
spent reading, digesting, and using, rather than on stupid technical retrieval work.<br />
Computers can do that.<br />
To others again, automation is a question of being able to use the online resource at<br />
all. If it takes 60 seconds to get a piece of information, it may be possible to get before<br />
running for the next meeting.<br />
However, if it takes 15 minutes, there may not be enough time. If you must also<br />
read a help text to find out how to do it, you may not even consider doing it. Your mind<br />
is so full of other things right now.<br />
When using a system for automatic communication, you do not have to<br />
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