Re: Hard Questions ?

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11387
interpreted = N
texte = mailto://adv000001@oursite.com address embedded in the record html. > > The advertisers anonimity is preserved and the client can directly send > mail to this address, once the mail server receives the email it then > forwards it onto the original address held in the database.You can applescript a POP server. When a new account is setup, send an Apple Event to the mail server (assuming it is one that support Apple Event) to open a new account called adv000001 which will redirect to the advertiser's real email account. When the POP server receives an email to account adv000001, it will do an automatic redirect to the real email.> > If the Advertiser chooses to respond it's then at his discretion rather > than revealing his email address to an unscreened general public via the > web site. > > All of this has to occurr automatically. So each time a new advertisement > is place, a sequential email address is generated with a forwarding ability > to send email received by this address to the real email address of the > advertiser. > > The next question is, can this be achieved : the advertiser in the > advertising entry screen specifies a URL of a gif or jpeg he wished to > include in his ad. Once he presses the submit button Webcatalog goes and > retrieves the image and generates a html preview of the final ad content > including the image. From here the advertiser and either cancel, try > again, or submit the advertisement for publication, picture and all. > You ask for the URL (a text input box). When submit, WebCat stores the URL on the database (I would suggest some verification routine to ensure that it is a valid URL for a graphic file). Then on the preview page, the .tmpl will do a [lookup] and display the graphics. You can even embed new text within the old graphics and generates a new graphics, using a new program from Star9.Nelson _______________ First Webmaster Group http://first-webmaster.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Hard Questions ? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Hard Questions ? (Sven U. Grenander 1997)
  3. Hard Questions ? (Tim Rignold 1997)
  4. Re: Hard Questions ? (Nelson Chen 1997)
mailto://adv000001@oursite.com address embedded in the record html. > > The advertisers anonimity is preserved and the client can directly send > mail to this address, once the mail server receives the email it then > forwards it onto the original address held in the database.You can applescript a POP server. When a new account is setup, send an Apple Event to the mail server (assuming it is one that support Apple Event) to open a new account called adv000001 which will redirect to the advertiser's real email account. When the POP server receives an email to account adv000001, it will do an automatic redirect to the real email.> > If the Advertiser chooses to respond it's then at his discretion rather > than revealing his email address to an unscreened general public via the > web site. > > All of this has to occurr automatically. So each time a new advertisement > is place, a sequential email address is generated with a forwarding ability > to send email received by this address to the real email address of the > advertiser. > > The next question is, can this be achieved : the advertiser in the > advertising entry screen specifies a URL of a gif or jpeg he wished to > include in his ad. Once he presses the submit button Webcatalog goes and > retrieves the image and generates a html preview of the final ad content > including the image. From here the advertiser and either cancel, try > again, or submit the advertisement for publication, picture and all. > You ask for the URL (a text input box). When submit, WebCat stores the URL on the database (I would suggest some verification routine to ensure that it is a valid URL for a graphic file). Then on the preview page, the .tmpl will do a [lookup] and display the graphics. You can even embed new text within the old graphics and generates a new graphics, using a new program from Star9.Nelson _______________ First Webmaster Group http://first-webmaster.com Nelson Chen

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