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Re: My contact form is not emailed to me

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"Jerry Stuckle"  wrote in message news:ioqgme$js$3@dont-email.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website was not visually appealing and the home page had a lot of outdated 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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My contact form is not emailed to me nathanir <rajeshn923@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 00:36 -0700
  Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-16 10:04 -0400
    Re: My contact form is not emailed to me nathanir <rajeshn923@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 07:36 -0700
      Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-16 16:11 -0400
      Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-16 16:25 -0400
        Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-16 17:40 -0400
          Re: My contact form is not emailed to me nathanir <rajeshn923@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 10:27 -0700
            Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "MG" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-04-17 21:58 +0200
              Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-17 16:39 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-18 22:30 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-18 22:58 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-19 00:33 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-19 06:29 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-20 13:46 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-20 18:51 +0100
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-20 16:41 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-20 16:59 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-20 16:55 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-20 19:58 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-20 23:44 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-21 04:04 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-21 06:29 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-21 04:31 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-21 06:32 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2011-04-21 04:37 -0600
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-21 13:42 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "Mr. B-o-B" <mr.chew.baka@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 15:21 -0500
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-21 20:04 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-22 00:45 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-22 11:07 +0100
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-22 07:07 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-22 15:28 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2011-04-23 04:32 -0400
                Re: My contact form is not emailed to me "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-04-22 08:23 -0500

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