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> And they require your little server-side script to include some SMTP library and connect to a mail server. That's too heavyweight just to get some short information.

Really? Building and deploying a bot made in an arbitrary language is less onerous than registering for a Gmail account to send mail reports through?

Perhaps it's just the author's sense of humour, but this didn't strike me as helpful at all. Notifications can be handy for some things, email for other things. Depends on the person. But it's not hard to set up an email account. That's partly why it's still around.