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-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

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From: "Leland V. Lammert" Save Address Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:47:48 -0600 To: hwg-servers@hwg.org, Subject: STLWEBDEV: OnLine Directory Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- We have a project for which we need to build an online directory. At first glance, we will need:

1) Zip-code or area-code based search for advertisers/members 2) Advertiser logins for account maintenance and log reports 3) Administrator access for site management 4) Banner system for placing advertising for non-search modes

Before we start spec'ing in detail, I wanted to ask if anyone had done anything similar, seen anything similar, or might wish to do some sort of joint-venture. Of course, open-source is nice, but I guess to be fair we should consider all platforms (I expect this to be a dedicated server).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciatd!

TIA,

Lee

============================================ Leland V. Lammert lvl@omnitec.net Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ============================================

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

From: "Tom Bennett" Save Address To: Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: HTML printing Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:57:16 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- I've used HTMLDOC (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) to do the same thing on Linux and it works very well.. especially for simple files. As your printed documents get more complex, it takes a little longer to get them to print properly. It's also free and pretty well documented.

Tom

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

From: "Michael Shoemaker" Save Address To: Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: HTML printing Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:32:29 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- I wouldn't purchase Acrobat for a task as small as this. You can download Ghostscript and utilize it to generate pdf. files. Basically you print the document to a file(PostScript) and then processes that file using ghostscript to generate the pdf doc. Works like a charm.

Mike

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

From: "Bob Niemeier" Save Address To: Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: OnLine Directory Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:00:52 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- JustWebAds.com can handle part of this.

It requires MS SQL server7, aspmail and aspupload so should be considered an NT project, but the ads can show up anywhere, and since it is also available as a service bureau, you could use it without buying it or setting up a server for it. You can set up queries that will deliver particular ads also, so if that is a benefit we have that going for us.

If you would like to try it, you can.

http://www.adservicebureau.com

Sign up as a new web site administrator, the software sends me a message which I have to approve.

Bob Niemeier VP Marketing JustWebAds.com 314 865-1778 sales@justwebads.com

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

From: "Leland V. Lammert" Save Address Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:53:01 -0600 To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: OnLine Directory Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- At 09:00 AM 3/13/01 -0600, you wrote: >JustWebAds.com can handle part of this.

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the reply, .. but the banners are only one part of the overall solution. I would like to have a better handle on the rest of the application before committing to a specific platform.

Lee

============================================ Leland V. Lammert lvl@omnitec.net Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ============================================

-- Anonymous, March 13, 2001

New email topic

To: Subject: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:28:27 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Does anyone know of an ASP COM object that can do e-mail better than CDONTS?

I've got a client who I wrote a Guestbook/Mailing list application for and he tried to send out 1200 e-mails all at once and CDONTS didn't care for that much... Pegged the server to the point that IIS wouldn't respond to anything, so I rebooted which terminated the script but it came back up and pegged again as it finished the rest of the e-mails in queue and it ended up bombing and rebooting on it's own and then it was okay.

Don't worry, it's not spam, they signed up for the mailing list and I provide a way to unsubscribe! LOL!

I'm thinking about possibly having my application send the data to a linux box and have a perl script do the work, at least then I'd be guaranteed that the server wouldn't become useless and quit responding.

Any ideas?

Matt Kaatman ThoughtProcess.net http://www.thoughtprocess.net

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

From: "SCHROEDER, NATHAN E [FND/1000]" Save Address To: "'stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org'" Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:51:29 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- For a mailing list application, you might want to consider specialized (optimized) software: Lsoft's Listserv.

Nathan Schroeder nathan.e.schroeder@monsanto.com

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

From: "Cheryl Hammond" Save Address To: Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:40:56 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- The problem with a listserv is that it does not allow you to create a unique message for each person on your mailing list. I use aspMail from server objects.

I regularly send unique messages to persons who have signed up with our jobs service. They get message tailored to the CV they have submitted. We also send messages to clients who have placed jobs. They get lists of CVs tailored to their job requirements.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

From: "Bob Niemeier" Save Address To: Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:33:54 -0600 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- aspqmail will work for this.

It sets up a queue that holds the email and releases so many at a time.

Bob Niemeier

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

From: Skye Save Address Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:41:39 -0600 Subject: Re: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email To: stlwebdev Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- I prefer ASPeMail to ASPMail...they are quite similar, but the former is FREE:

http://www.aspemail.com/

-- Skye Giordano Interactive Multimedia Designer Technisonic Studios 314. 533.1777 http://www.technisonic.com

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001

From: Jacob Kenner Save Address Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:36:39 -0500 To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org Subject: Re: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

Matt Kaatman wrote: > Does anyone know of an ASP COM object that can do e-mail better than CDONTS? > > I'm thinking about possibly having my application send the data to a linux > box and have a perl script do the work, at least then I'd be guaranteed that > the server wouldn't become useless and quit responding. > > Any ideas?

If you already have the linux box, put the input form and mailer on that box. It can then send the emails directly. Another way (maybe better) would be to set up list server software on the linux box, and send a single message from your IIS server to a list containing your 1500 email recipients. This list software would give you the added advantage of already handling unsubscription in a familiar way.

~jacob

-- Anonymous, April 05, 2001

From: "Butler, C. David" Save Address To: "'stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org'" Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:41:14 -0500 Reply-To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org

-----Original Message----- From: Butler, C. David Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 10:35 AM To: 'stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org' Subject: RE: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email

Aureate Media has a Group Mail shareware product that should work much better than CDONTS for you. We've sent several thousand emails at a time with no problems. It also records which ones are successful or not. Their website is http://www.infacta.com/gm.html and the file is grmail.exe.

David

-----Original Message----- From: Jacob Kenner [mailto:jacob@causative.net] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:37 AM To: stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org Subject: Re: STLWEBDEV: Mass Email

Matt Kaatman wrote: > Does anyone know of an ASP COM object that can do e-mail better than CDONTS? > > I'm thinking about possibly having my application send the data to a linux > box and have a perl script do the work, at least then I'd be guaranteed that > the server wouldn't become useless and quit responding. > > Any ideas?

If you already have the linux box, put the input form and mailer on that box. It can then send the emails directly. Another way (maybe better) would be to set up list server software on the linux box, and send a single message from your IIS server to a list containing your 1500 email recipients. This list software would give you the added advantage of already handling unsubscription in a familiar way.

~jacob

-- Anonymous, April 06, 2001