From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 14:26: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCADB14FD1; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA01880; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:45:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:45:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Jonathan Chen , Soren Schmidt , Daniel Haischt , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > No, generating a slightly different letter wouldn't be that hard. Someone > would just have to write a bunch of slightly different letters. > > I'm thinking something like this: > > Set up a web site with a form that asks for your email and name > (anything else needed?), and then sends off the email. > > Options: > - The email could be randomly selected from the pool of letters, > substiting your name and email, etc. > - The first email could be 1, the second, 2, etc... (sequential and > looping). > - Or, you fill the form out once, and then every week, or maybe two weeks, > or something insistent, but nice, an email gets sent out. > > Also, every unique email gets added to a list, and displayed on a page. > This url is included in all the emails to Oracle so they can see just how > many people have signed up. > > > > I'd be happy to write the scripts to do this and host it, but I'm going to > need help writing the letters and figuring out who the best person to send > this to at oracle is. > > Thoughts? I was thinking more of something like: Name: Title: Company: Number of Emp: Planned use of oracle: Planned License: Why Oracle on FreeBSD: Kept private: Email: Tele: Automatically mailed and archived on a web page for them to see, the email would look something like: --- Request for Oracle-FreeBSD at who is the at <Company> is interested in Oracle on FreeBSD. The license sought is <num license> of <License> You can reach <Name> at <Email> or <Tele>. To see other users requesint an oracle version of FreeBSD please visit: http://url/... --- The private stuff could be given to Oracle if they desired to put some "real people" behind these requests. I want oracle on FreeBSD dammit! -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message