| Re: My contact form is not emailed to me [message #173648 is a reply to message #173642] |
Fri, 22 April 2011 11:07   |
Jerry Stuckle
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Registered: September 2010
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On 4/22/2011 12:45 AM, P E Schoen wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message news:ioqgme$js$3(at)dont-email(dot)me...
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>> 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.
>
The appropriate field for whom it is from is the From: field. THAT
PERSON is the one send it - not your event processor script. It really
makes no difference whether they 're doing it from your script or their
own system.
And I can just the poor person on the other end trying to find the
"Party for Jean on Friday" message in a few hundred saved messages, all
of them with the subject 'From: Tom Smith".
>> 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 of outdated and superfluous material.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
>
It's OK- not great, but OK.
> 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/
>
Hit counter - another sign of a hack "webmaster". You can tell them
every time.
<snip>
> 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.
>
<snip>
A competent webmaster can solve a lot of problems.
> Paul
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