[WEB4LIB] Re: Free and clear e-form examples

[Cameron Metcalf]

E-forms I'm currently using with Free and Clear may be found at:

http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/professionals/library/ill1_e.htm
http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/professionals/library/ref1_e.htm
http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/professionals/library/email_e.htm

you may want to use any of the above, to get a jumpstart in coding yr own
pages, using this off-site service.

Cameron

John Harvey wrote:

> Cameron Metcalf wrote:
>
>         I've had to use free e-form services over the last couple years.
>         had to change three services, 'cause spammers
>         take advantage of these types of services..
>         the current service I've been taking advantage
>         of (for the past 9 months) is
>
>         http://www.freeandclear.nu
>
>         free and clear is  fairly reliable; and will give you considerable
> control
>         over
>         the way your forms are handled.
>
>         After trying a number of these services, freeandclear is my
> favourite.
>
> As I've had numerous issues with other remote CGI processing services
> (slowness, advertising on the pages seen by the user and on the e-mailed
> responses that we receive), I went out to the Free and Clear site. After
> registering, I configured a test page, cut and pasted the code into a form,
> and ran it.
>
> I'm quite impressed; no advertising, a very quick server response, and easy
> setup. After seeing this, I registered all six of our online reference
> forms, changed the coding, and uploaded the files to our server.
>
> All in all, it seems a very useful tool for those with limited server access
> or CGI experience.
>
> Of course, the others that I've used were advert-free and fast in the
> beginning. We'll see if Free and Clear can keep it up.
>
> Oh, there's another plus: Free and Clear's coding doesn't put your e-mail
> address on the form page, where the spammers' harvesting spiders can find
> it.
>
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> John C Harvey
> Irving Public Library [http://www.irvinglibrary.org/]
> jharvey at irving.lib.tx.us
>
> In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
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