The Poor Man’s Web Server
They think you’re a Web Server. In reality, you have an email box and a Web page. Operate your own Match-Making service, Real Estate Multiple-Listing service, do automatic order processing for your business - the things-you-can-do are only limited by your imagination.
With the coming of the World Wide Web, control of the Net shifted from the providers to the users.
- You, from your Web Browser, select where to go and what to do.
- You with your WebPage, become the provider.
- WebPages with “Forms” allow communication between you and your audience.
- They fill-in the form and press send and the information travels to your email box.
- But, this communication is a one-way street.
- They send-to-you, but you must manually reply-to them.
What if, a program scanned your email box every hour or every thirty seconds, processed the information requests then sent confidential replies by email, automatically. This is how AutoSponder works.
Shouting - Long ago, before the coming of the electronic technology, the distance the we could project out thoughts was limited by how-loud we could shout. With the coming of the technology the range was extended in proportion to the number of dollars one is willing to expend. The select few could blanket the planet. Now, you too can project yourself over the planet and do-it for free. (Neither America Online nor the Internet charge to send e-mail.)
Be Like President Clinton - Scan your incoming emails for key words and send customized, automatic, replies or
- send a message to all your friends and relatives or
- operate your own listserver - every time an email containing certain key words arrives, send a copy of the email to everyone on the list and add the new person to the list, automatically.
Search Your Database on the Net - Do you have a database you would like to share.
- When the familiar “Search Form” comes up,
- your database is searched
- a report is constructed
- and the results sent by email.
Build Your Database - Scan incoming email for key words,
- extract information,
- and add-it to your database.
For an example: See the World Wide Registry matching adoptees and birth parents, the autosponder extracts the information from incoming emails, updates several databases, echoes the information to several other sites, then searches for matches, constructs a report and sends the reply.
Guest Books andAutomatic Postings - How about scanning incoming email for keywords,
- extract information,
- add to your WebPage
- and automatically upload the new version to the Net for all to view.
For an example see the Resources section of the World Wide Registry.
Forms Decoder - Make your web site portable - maybe, have several locations for your web site.
Did you know that Netscape and other browsers will automatically handle form processing (like below)? Instead of being dependent upon your provider's from processor (they are all different) and paying extra, let the "browsers" handle the form processing. The problem, in the past, with this method of form processing is that the stuff that travels to your mail box, is unreadable. Autosponder will decode the mess into an easy to read format.
Free Lite Version vs. Full Version
The free demo version is a fully-functional version which will expire after about 30 days. After this it will allow you two events.
- AutoSponder uses simple text files to manage information.
- You can supply your own files.
- Built-in database search or you can substitute your own search routine.
- System requirements.
- Is this the complete program?
- Download - to get the updated more powerful version (Spamster) click here.
