Hi. After a few incidents of going over my sprint PCS minute usage
without any warning, I hacked together a Perl script that will log in
to the sprintpcs.com website and check my usage for me. It e-mails me
if I go over a certain usage percentage. I thought I'd post a link
here in case anyone else might find it useful:

http://www.chrishardie.com/tech/perl...minutes.pl.txt

Note that you need a few extra modules installed, and you need the
components for WWW::Mechanize that allow SSL connections. Consult your
local Perl expert for help with this if you need it; I can't provide
support here.

It may well require tweaking depending on how standard your calling
plan is, or other variations that I don't know about. And of course
it's subject to breakage when Sprint updates the HTML code on their
site.

I know it's pretty easy to check your minutes online already, and I
believe we're in a phase of the moon when Sprint is allowing you to
check from your phone for free too, but it's still one less thing I
have to remember to think about now.
Any comments or refinements are welcome.

Chris




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