Well, with *ANY* form of email, there is simply no way you can be sure it
has been received unless the other party acknowledges it... unless you get
an automatic receipt... with a tracking/ticket no.!

The purpose of going throught the RWI is to only allow legitimate parties
access to it, but unless you get a receipt, you can consider your request as
if it never was sent. Plus this gives the "official" reseller contact
(whatever that is) the receipt, not anybody sending a request to
***support_email_here***@opensrs.org.

Heck, even a "you must click here to confirm your request" could help.
That's how most subscrption mailing lists work, and it's saved me a couple
of third-party submitted regs. ;) So, don't accept support requests unless
a) they come from the RWI b) they are confirmed by somebody from the list of
contacts a reseller provides to OpenSRS (this is another discussion - create
a "support contact" ?).

If it's more complicated than that, I think it's too much...
Less than that, well, you get all the end users requests.

Maybe end-users should see a big, easy link on each page of the archive, as
well as OpenSRS.org to a support section that helps them find out who is
their reseller to go to support, with a FAQ only for them ? I think I recall
seing something about that but can't find it anymore.


Fabian Rodriguez - Toxik Technologies, Inc.
www.toxik.com . (514) 528-6945 @221
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Beazley
> At 09:42 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> [KJ] [...]I myself *hate* form based emails on websites

> I agree.  I use email primarily for trackability.
> If I've sent an email to someone, I can go back to it
> at any time in the future.  With form-based
> email, I can't nor can I know for sure it was received.

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