Safe notices delivery

Revision as of 10:30, 29 January 2017

General Information

As of January 30th, 2014 - Linden Labs restricted every Scripted Agent (otherwise known as bots) with messaging limits. Every bot is restricted with 5,000 messages daily. More information on messaging limits are available here

How it works with notices

For example, when you are sending one notice to a group with 3,000 members, your bot will have 2,000 messages remaining. So each member of the group counts as one individual message

Using Shared Bots

System Bots are managing your groups when using our Separate Group Services for L$ 79/week. When you are using shared bots, you also share bots messaging with other customers.

You should be fine by sending 2-3 notices daily.
Calculate how many notices you can send based on number of members your group has
They can successfully deliver notices while being used by less customers(Contact us to find out which bot is being used less)

Using Personal Bots

Personal Bots are your alternative avatars that you can host with SmartBots. More information for Personal Bots is available by this link

Personal Bots have their own messaging limits. (No sharing)
You should be fine with sending more notices than shared bots
Calculate how many notices you can send based on number of members your group has
You can also use QubicBot for no limits: More information here

Reliable notices delivery

Whenever you create periodic or one-time notices, you can view their delivery stats.

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Category: Group Notices Service

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-Second Life servers may restrict the amount of notices delivered to a group. The actual limits are not known and seems to vary from group to group. Some precautions will help you to increase the success of your notice delivery.
+== General Information ==
-== Official limits ==
+As of January 30th, 2014 - Linden Labs restricted every Scripted Agent (otherwise known as bots) with messaging limits. Every bot is restricted with 5,000 messages daily. More information on messaging limits are available [[Message Limits|here]]
-The only official notices limit is 2500 notices per avatar.
+=== How it works with notices ===
-== Experimental results ==
+For example, when you are sending one notice to a group with 3,000 members, your bot will have 2,000 messages remaining. So each member of the group counts as '''one individual message'''
-The official limits seems very optimistic, but sometimes you may be faced with more strict limitations applied by SL. Your notice may get silently discarded: usually this happens after 20 repetitive notices (nevertheless, usually you can send 30 or even 42 simultaneous notices without being capped).
+== Using Shared Bots ==
-=== Mysterious error message ===
+System Bots are managing your groups when using our [[Group Services|Separate Group Services]] for L$ 79/week. When you are using shared bots, you also share bots messaging with other customers.
-Under some rare circumstances you may get the following system message after sending a notice:
+* You should be fine by sending 2-3 notices daily.
+* Calculate how many notices you can send based on number of members your group has
+* They can successfully deliver notices while being used by '''less customers'''([http://mysmartbots.com/en/contacts.html Contact us] to find out which bot is being used less)
-''"Failed to send group notice. It has been too soon since the last group notice has been sent. Please try again after a few minutes."''
+== Using Personal Bots ==
-We've faced this message while sending 10 or more repetitive messages to the '''same group'''. After receiving this message you should stop sending all notices. SL unblocks your avatar in about 10 minutes after the last notice.
+Personal Bots are your alternative avatars that you can host with SmartBots. More information for Personal Bots is available [[Personal_Bots|by this link]]
-'''As of 06/2013, SL support staff does not know any details about this error message.'''
+* Personal Bots have their own messaging limits. (No sharing)
+* You should be fine with sending more notices than shared bots
-* It seems that a 30 second delay helps to avoid this message. Lower delays' impact varies from group to group.
+* Calculate how many notices you can send based on number of members your group has
-* It does not matter how much notices your avatar has sent before. We've received this message while using an avatar which was offline for several months.
+* '''You can also use QubicBot for no limits''': [[QubicBot Interface|More information here]]
-* SL viewer version does not matter (Phoenix, SL Viewer, SmartBots engine, Pikkubot). We've seen this message after sending 10 messages using the native SL Viewer.
 == Reliable notices delivery ==
-The best way to ensure reliable delivery is to add a delay after each notice.
+Whenever you create periodic or one-time notices, you can view their delivery stats.
-SmartBots periodic notices delivery engine allows you setting custom delay when you send notices to multiple groups (10+).
+[[Image:Delivery_Stats2.png|link=|center|]]
 [[Category: Group Notices Service]]
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