[notabel]

I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator".

I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice.

Sieve happens in realtime :-)

[jey]

I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!

[danw]

I'm about a 100ms away from there so presumably you'll know before I do

[jganetsk]

Doesn't have to. But it sure might not get routed that way.

[theoutlander]

Hold up Hold up! The data will travel straight to Seattle first before getting re-routed! So even if you guys are 100ms away ... the data pipes are facing in my direction :-D

[jkush]

I've got you beat. I built a robot last night (runs on Lisp and parts from Radio Shack) that constantly monitors the internet, my phone lines and packets going out of YC's office. As soon as my robot picks up a signal of interest it beams the messages directly to my HUD that I've been wearing ever since I sent my app in.

[notabel]

Hurray for over-engineered solutions! While you're at it, though, you might as well just have your robot slip inside YC and grab a copy of Arc--then it wouldn't just be Lisp, it would be Hundred Year Lisp!

[dfranke]

How high would you jump if I sent you an SMS right now?

[notabel]

Well, given that I'm on the second floor of Marston, I'd probably find out what the view from the roof is. :-)

[jwecker]

"I tried to call but no one answered..."