Group: alt.discuss.clubs.public.webtv.technical.ultrax Date: Tue, Oct 24, 2000, 4:54pm (EDT-3) 
From: jasmat14@webtv.net (Jasmat) 
WTV-NOTICES:/ wtv-notify:

I was testing wtv-notices:/ urls using wtv-notify: commands that Eric Macdonald just found on the viewer...he found wtv-notify:disconnect, wtv-notify:reconnect, wtv-notify:logout and wtv-notify:notices. It made sense that wtv-notices:/ would work with those commands if any service. Mail notification was the first thing that came to (eric's) mind so I tried a few urls out. Eric mailed me right after I used each one. Each test performed at least twice. Results: 

wtv-notices:/notices: 
Seemed to load page, then quit. Loading bar disappears and nothing happens. 

wtv-notices:/disconnect: 
No information popup, Chirped as I hit mail, new mail there, nothing noticeable 

wtv-notices:/reconnect: 
Yellow light flickered & hd rumbled as if loading something, and mail light flickered and the chirp sounded as the "no information" alert popped up. 

wtv-notices:/logout: 
Waited for new mail 10-15 minutes, got tired, went to homepage, noticed no wtv-center swf...maybe a coincidence, logged off. Logged back on, chirp and red flicker at splash screen, new mail waiting. 

wtv-notices:/logout, followed by 
wtv-notices:/reconnect: same results as previous test, but I didn't log off. After I used wtv-notices:/reconnect, the red light flickered and I heard a chirp, but I went to my mail list and there was no new mail. A minute later I reloaded and there it was. Coincidence? 
"logout" had the effects we thought "disconnect" would have...any other urls give a blank popup. The sources for the wtv-notices:/ pages all have content-type: text/x-notices and go by too quickly to be copied. I never have seen any wtv-notices discussion or urls except for "Notices" DISHPlayer previewers were testing last year. But this is different. Any other results? Any oher know wtv-notify: or wtv-notices:/ urls/commands?