Hehe,

I was just thinking of an easy way to get all my mates details into
Contact Manager.  I started by writing out e-mails to some mates
asking for all the info and listing the fields that Contact Manager
has.

But this started getting silly so I had another idea.  How about some
standard way of getting info from people direct into CM, without me
having to copy it from the e-mail into - CM after I do get a response.

Well I thought about it and came up with a webpage form idea.  The
web-address to the form would take an e-mail (yours) address as a
parameter.  So when you send out your e-mails to mates asking for
details you'd just ask them go to a URL something like:

http://www.vapor.com/contactmanager.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

*NOTE THE ABOVE IS BULLS**T I JUST MADE UP! :)*

So this CGI script would allow a friend to enter as much info as (s)he
wanted, then (s)he can 'submit' the form and the output would be
processed into a nice useable format that can be directly imported
into Contact Manager.  It would mean CM will have to be updated, but
then again it's not exactly without bugs ATM and could do with an
update, please :)))

So is my idea possible, Chris, Olli, Neil net-experts??  It would be
quite cool I think and a definate product extra that people could
appreciate.  It little things with software that make it stick out
from others.  I haven't a clue about writing CGI scripts (it's in Perl
or something isn't it?) so I can't do owt about the idea.

Dinky do,



Mike.

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