note OfficeLinebacker Greetings, esteemed monks!<p> To reply to my own concern, I came up with this for generating wait times between link clicking/back() calls in a Mech script. What do you think?</p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; my $i1 = int(rand(5)+1); my $i2 = int(rand(2)); my $i = 0; while ($i<10){ print "$i1: $i2\n"; my $interval = $i1 + ($i2*$i1); print "waiting for $interval seconds...\n"; sleep($interval); $i1 = int(rand(5)+1); $i2 = int(rand(2)); $i++; } </code> Sample output: <code> 1: 0 waiting for 1 seconds... 4: 0 waiting for 4 seconds... 1: 1 waiting for 2 seconds... 4: 1 waiting for 8 seconds... 4: 0 waiting for 4 seconds... 4: 1 waiting for 8 seconds... 4: 0 waiting for 4 seconds... 5: 0 waiting for 5 seconds... 1: 1 waiting for 2 seconds... 1: 1 waiting for 2 seconds... </code> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-544128"> <hr> I like computer programming because it's like Legos for the mind. </div></div> 929348 929425