| Re: My contact form is not emailed to me [message #173642 is a reply to message #173640] |
Fri, 22 April 2011 04:45   |
P E Schoen
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Registered: January 2011
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"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message news:ioqgme$js$3(at)dont-email(dot)me...
> No, it's all about using fields *properly*. There is a field made
> for who the message comes from - it is the From: field.
> The Subject: field is for just that - the subject of the message.
> Seeing someone use it as a From: field shows the person has no
> idea what he is doing - which is the case here.
Well, "thinking outside the box", I would assert that this email is actually
being sent "from" my EventProcessor script, since it is only a confirmation
to me that someone has used the application and entered specific information
as outlined in the HTML form. I would also suggest that, in this case, the
subject is appropriate, telling me that a specific person has submitted the
form data which is detailed and formatted in the email body.
> Fortunately, most clients can recognize an incompetent programmer,
> and find someone who can do the job *right*. It takes longer for
> some then others, but most figure it out, eventually.
If they have any complaints they are more than welcome to hire someone else
and unload this additional work. I volunteered to be the webmaster when the
previous one was unable to continue, and there had been some complaints
about his inability to update the content in a timely manner. Also, the
website was not visually appealing and the home page had a lot of outdated
and superfluous material. From June 2010:
http://maryland.sierraclub.org/baltimore/indexold.html
I have kept the same format for now, and I added a hit counter and links to
the event submission form and other things I have been trying:
http://maryland.sierraclub.org/baltimore/
Many of our members said they liked the form and function of this site:
http://maryland.sierraclub.org/montgomery/
However, it is rather complex and difficult for me to maintain, and some of
the material is copyrighted, so I may have to create a simplified version.
This was an early attempt to clone a previous version of their website:
http://www.pauleschoen.com/SCGBG/
Actually, I preferred the website design of some other MD groups, such as
http://maryland.sierraclub.org/catoctin/. It is also similar to others, and
seems to be derived from the MD chapter site:
http://maryland.sierraclub.org/
The reason for the event submission form and all my efforts to implement it
(first in Perl and then PHP) was to allow event leaders to submit material
without my involvement. But people seemed to be unable or unwilling to use
this, so we are still having people email content to me and I just convert
it to HTML. And sometimes it takes a while for me to get "a round tuit",
which means that some events have already passed by the time I update the
site. Now some of the event leaders are using
http://www.meetup.com/baltimoresierraclub/, and also facebook. Maybe that's
the way to go. Our website has been getting only 10 hits a day and most of
them are bots or other indirect accesses rather than actual people.
Maybe a better option is to do as we have done for another group:
www.baltimoregreenforum.org. The login information has been shared with the
dozen or so members of the planning committee so each of us can modify the
content. I think that is a high security risk, but it was done by the
forum's founder, so as webmaster I don't have any special privileges.
And as Paul Harvey might say, "and that is the rest of the story."
Paul
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