Help me flood cyber space with SPAM....

1/5/07, 11:12 PM #1

Alan Young
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Help me flood cyber space with SPAM....

Alan Young

>Well at least my friend's and family's inboxes...

I send out a little news letter two or three time a year to my clients, friends and family. I make a webpage and insert the link in an e-mail that I send out via bcc.

I'd like the recepients to not have to click on a link.I would like to know what I need to do to make the webpage appear in the body of the e-mail when the inbox is opened. My web-creation program is very conveniently designed so that I need not know my hyper text from my mark up language...and I don't!

Any coding details that I need to make this work?

Thanks,

Alan

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1/6/07, 12:09 AM #2

Clint Searl, at the base of Haycock Mtn
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Clint Searl, at the base of Haycock Mtn

>Sorry, I can't answer your question, but I want to put up my website and need an easy to use creation application. What do you use, please.

Clint

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1/6/07, 12:19 AM #3

Alan Young
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Re: Help me flood cyber space with SPAM.... *LINK*

Alan Young

>Hi Clint,

I use Homestead. I've had it for about 8 years. There may be other platforms out there that work as easily-maybe cheaper- I couldn't say, But I am pleased beyond punch with this program.

Mostly Cut and Paste operations but plenty of opportunity for sophisticated website production if you know html. The program comes with a great set of site tracking statistics and different types of storefront options.

Alan

Homestead

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1/6/07, 1:16 AM #4

Dan Donaldson
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Depends

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>You can send HTML encoded e-mails, but anyone with any real sense will have their e-mail set to receive text only, so it probably would not work. I block anything that is html encoded.

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I have been woodworking for about 25 years now, and would consider myself an enthusiastic amateur. My claim to fame (or infamy) has always been fixing stuff. I spent time in the Air Force in the 60's then went to work as an electronic technician for civil service. I finally got my EE, and being fed up with the civil service nonsense, took a job with Ford Motor Company until I went with the split to Visteon last year. I got interested in music and started playing in a bluegrass band. I wanted a new guitar, and that kind of led me into woodworking. I bought some books, a few tools, and built a guitar. Luckily, I didn't know any better than to try that as a first ever project. I still play it when I get a chance, so it must not be too bad if it can live for over 20 years. After a stint in Mexico for my job, I moved into a new house and built a small shop. Since then I have been collecting tools and skills, probably more of the former than the latter ;-). Finding this site has done more for my skills and enjoyment than anything else. I have learned a lot and really enjoy the friendships that I have made here. I have been married to LOML (Lori) for 32 years now and have 6 kids. When they are all gone, I want to get a 1 bedroom house (so there is not room for them to move back in) and at least a 6 car heated/air conditioned garage for a shop. (Dream on...)

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1/6/07, 1:31 AM #5

Alan Young
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OK I'll just leave it as is. Thanks Dan

Alan Young

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1/6/07, 2:15 PM #6

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>Dan, I wonder what the stats are as far as how many people are set to receive text only? I've always been set to HTML and I routinely send HTML newsletters to customers.

Ellis

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1/6/07, 2:41 PM #7

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie
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In my world

Mark Goodall - ATL - tooljunkie

>For what it's worth......

In my world, which is small business (3-90 employees) everyone is modeled after my previous world which was larger corporations (4000-80,000 employees). The accepted standard is IE and MS-Outlook, and Outlook is always set to send/receive all email as HTML.

I know there seems to alot of "renegades" here at WoodCentral and many other boards that want to buck the trend (not said in a negative way I assure you, I understand completely) who insist on using non-MS tools like Firefox, Opera, etc. But my experience is that most businesses from small mom-pop shops to large corporations find value in using the "accepted" standards, and HTML email is one of them.

Happy Woodworking!

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1/6/07, 8:02 PM #8

Steve Strickland
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sounds like you need a blog

Steve Strickland

>A blog will do the job. There's some nice free ones at:

http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

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1/7/07, 7:24 AM #9

Dan Donaldson
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;-)

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>I admit being one of the renegades. I use Firefox and Thunderbird, plus I have active x disabled, accept only text e-mail, and probably a few other foibles. I like to use the KISS principle. I managed a fairly large OEM embedded software group for a bunch of years, and I guess it made me paranoid. We were very careful because if something got into our servers, it could cause a couple of hundred people to be making a lot of money sitting on their thumbs doing almost nothing productive. ;-)

I am not necessarily anti-MS, (I used to have an MSDN subscription) but from some of the policies I have been reading about the stuff in Vista, that may be the thing that causes me to go completely Linux or MAC.

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I have been woodworking for about 25 years now, and would consider myself an enthusiastic amateur. My claim to fame (or infamy) has always been fixing stuff. I spent time in the Air Force in the 60's then went to work as an electronic technician for civil service. I finally got my EE, and being fed up with the civil service nonsense, took a job with Ford Motor Company until I went with the split to Visteon last year. I got interested in music and started playing in a bluegrass band. I wanted a new guitar, and that kind of led me into woodworking. I bought some books, a few tools, and built a guitar. Luckily, I didn't know any better than to try that as a first ever project. I still play it when I get a chance, so it must not be too bad if it can live for over 20 years. After a stint in Mexico for my job, I moved into a new house and built a small shop. Since then I have been collecting tools and skills, probably more of the former than the latter ;-). Finding this site has done more for my skills and enjoyment than anything else. I have learned a lot and really enjoy the friendships that I have made here. I have been married to LOML (Lori) for 32 years now and have 6 kids. When they are all gone, I want to get a 1 bedroom house (so there is not room for them to move back in) and at least a 6 car heated/air conditioned garage for a shop. (Dream on...)

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1/7/07, 3:04 PM #10

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>I think the answer can probably be seen in Mark's reply. His approach is most likely the norm for most businesses. Home users are another story. I'd venture a guess that there are many people who don't even know where in the MS program to change that option, why they would want to, or how.

Personally, I use the MS offerings for Web and e-mail with settings to receive HTML. While I'm aware of the potential security issues, I'm still comfortable with my choice.

David

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I live in Mechanicsville, VA (not far from Richmond) and I've been building furniture and cabinetry for well over 20 years now. It all started with my frustration of not being able to cut a straight line with a hand saw. About this same time, a guy named Norm appeared on my local PBS station. The more I watched, the more I learned. I also started thinking, "Hey, I can do that"! And so, I began with small projects and soon found myself moving up to increasingly advanced work. Word of mouth started the ball rolling and before I knew it, I was building all kinds of things for people. While this is not what I do to pay the bills, it has provided me with a means of equipping my shop over the years. The main downside to all of this is when my wife looks at a finished project and says, "I want one of those" and I know I don't have the time to make that happen right then. I take advantage of any slack time between commissions to work on things we want and this seems to keep her "on my side". She even surprised me one day with a new Tormek sharpening system. Sometimes it pays to leave that tool catalog lying around open! For me, woodworking is a type of therapy. I can go out to the shop and totally forget about the world outside. There have been days when I get out there early and before I know it, it's dark outside and I have no idea where the time went! I also enjoy challenging my skills and learning new things. Most of the time, since the majority of my work tends to be custom pieces, I'm working on projects I�ve never built before. While this takes me longer than if I were doing production work, I find it more appealing because there's always something new to learn. I haven't had any formal training in woodworking. My teachers have been experience, the many books and magazines I've read, WoodCentral, and of course, a guy named Norm.

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