[chrispadfield]

that is a great idea - some thoughts.

1. There is a slight problem of a cron job timing out (unlikely) or more possible someone closing their browser or whatever in the middle of the cron job. Some sort of backup mechanism if the cron job is set to busy all the time as if this happened it would never get out of the busy status.

2. Possibility of having cron jobs only set off by a certain usergroup. It might be that we want to do quite a long cron job, for example the community bulletin. If this was the case, doing something like having a page come up

"Doing important server maintenace, please do not close this browser" sort of thing. So long you explained this to your moderators it would work. I know for certain that at least 1 of my moderators is going to visit the site every day.