Re: question regarding email form

Yes, Yahoo Groups is a very good way of doing this. You can make it a
"send-only" group, where the person's membership has to be approved, and
where they automatically receive any submissions that you make to the group.

Jami

----- Original Message -----
From: "jim barchuk" <jb(at)jbarchuk.com>
To: "Narda Elvidge" <ne32(at)hotmail.com>
Cc: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: question regarding email form


> Hello Narda!
>
> > I posted this once and i'm not sure if it made it through or not so i'll
try
> > it again.
>
> Never saw it before now. Must have been some e-glitch.
>
> > I'm not total fluent in the html language but i, along with my friend,
have
> > done up a few web sites for ourselves and for others.
> > I have the chance of doing up a web site for our township but they have
one
> > request that i'm not sure I can fulfill.
> > They are wanting to make their council minutes available to the public
in an
> > easier fashion.  They are wanting to have something on a web site where
> > anyone could enter their email address and then have the minutes emailed
> > back to them.
> > They'd like something on the site to the effect: "If you would like to
> > received the latest council minutes, enter your email address here" and
then
> > have a box on the site for the email address to be entered.  My
> > understanding is that the email addresses would then be forwarded onto
the
> > council offices and they would inturn send out the council minutes to
those
> > interested.
> > I hope i've typed this out clearly...and if anyone could help me out
with
> > this problem it would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thank you so much and take care!
> > Narda
>
> You need a mailing list. Not a 'discussion' mailing list, but a
> distribution mailing list.
>
> You need a -real- mailing list that does 'confirmation' messages.
> Otherwise any obnoxious geek (to differentiate from the garden variety
> more pleasant attitude geeks) can enter anyone's email address. Or
> hundreds of them. A confirmation message goes out first to the email
> address submitted and says 'did you really wanna do this?' Just like when
> you signed up for this mailing list.
>
> You can do this yourself with majordomo or ezmlm or any of a host of
> others, or with the plain personal emailer Pegasus.
>
> Or you can do it at groups.yahoo.com or any one of a host of others.
>
> If you roll your own, yes, you will need a very small FORM and a very
> simple script such as majorhelp  http://www.vpdev.com/scripts/ or any one
> of a host of others.
>
> Have a :) day!
>
> jb
>
> --
> jim barchuk
> jb(at)jbarchuk.com
>

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