On 27 Mar 2003, at 20:56, jim barchuk wrote:

> Hi David!
> 
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, David Jones wrote:
> 
> > On 27 Mar 2003, at 14:55, Shelley wrote:
> > 
> > > At this point I'm wondering if we should set up a new
> > > email address for their business account and filter
> > > (thru Outlook) the info@ emails into a different
> > > folder while suggesting that they systematically move
> > > their correspondence over.  The problem with that is,
> > > their email address is still going to be on the
> > > website.
> > 
> > Hmmm, why? Shouldn't it be done via a mail form that
> > feeds to a formmail-type script that can address the
> > message with the real address? The client can still have
> > a mail address, but it doesn't have to be on the web
> > site.
> 
> Yeah that's fine for initial contact, but Shelley
> mentioned 'business account' 'correspondence' which I take
> to mean everyday email. Can you *imagine* how annoying
> it'd be to have to turn on a browser, load a web site, and
> copy/paste previous email into it just for common email
> conversation? Yuck.  :)

Once past the initial contact point, presumably a real 
person at the client's place is corresponding with a real 
person at the contact's end of things. At that point, the 
mail wouldn't be going through a web form at all, but 
going throught the respective party's normal mail client.

The point about using the web form in the first place is 
you can enable incoming mail correspondence without 
exposing any actual email address on the web site 
where a spambot can grab it.

> And it doesn't matter anyway. The cat is already out of
> the bag for info(at)wherever.com. The day it stops getting
> spam is the day it's totally dumped and bounces with 'user
> unknown.' I still bounce addresses that've been dead for
> -years-, meaning they're on the million-and-one email
> address CDs and will always be there.

I still sometimes get spam from an old email account I 
had six years ago. Fortunately, it seems in the last 
round of cost cutting that former ISP of mine went 
through, they finally killed all of the mail forwarding they 
had set up for former customers (the mail forwarding 
was supposed to end after 30 days).

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 

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