Hello Thomas,
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 at 11:51:22 [GMT +0800], you wrote:
TF> If this purpose for submission forms is incorrect, I haven't
TF> understood what they are for. In some cases (banking), a signature
TF> would be required, in other cases (bug report), not.
You pretty much got it. I agree that in certain situations, a signed
"form" is not needed, which would be a great boon to me as I could
create forms for the FAQ, shortcuts, wishlist etc.
TF> What do you mean by "the server must have support for these
TF> facilities"?
By support, I mean that if the server (the recipient of your form)
doesn't have filters/database/autoresponder etc. Then they won't do
anything for you (unless some human intervenes.) You are correct in
that the form we see is just a formatting tool for a cleartext
message. The recipient must have a means for extracting the
information from the message to perform some function and return a
result.
Leif Gregory
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