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ScottB

January 15, 2004, 03:41:31 PM

Group: Administrator
LLF Fishing Addict

Posts: 6925

This might be a stretch but here it goes.

A lot of people have cell phones that can send email or test messages.

Set up an email address. Lets say for the sake of argument email@lakelavonfishing.com

The person (fisherman) sends a test message to that mailbox "Fish are biting NOW. Get out here!" That message is then posted to the site under a new topic.

What do you think?

Scott

shawn

January 15, 2004, 03:48:21 PM

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hhhmmm don't know how you would be able to link that to a username to post under...plus then you have the whole spam mail thing to contend with...don't know if that will work...

ScottB

January 15, 2004, 03:52:51 PM

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Oh come on now. You give up too easy. Allow posts to the incoming email address only from pre-approved email addresses and have them all post under the same username (remoteuser) but "link" the incoming email address to a user name.

example:
sbursik@vtextcom=ScottB

Should be a simple perl script and some interface into the SQL database.

Scott

shawn

January 15, 2004, 03:57:07 PM

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so where do we get all of these pre-approved email addresses? Their cell phone email address may not be the one in their profile??

ScottB

January 16, 2004, 08:24:47 AM

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Some regsitration page that is only available once you are logged in. I will work on a stand alone perl script that should do the job and hand it over for your review.

Scott

riverrat723

January 16, 2004, 09:11:32 AM

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I am not sure what his capabilities are, but Cool_Spruill might have some insight to this as well.

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arborist

January 16, 2004, 09:19:32 AM

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I can just see it now. . . the mad dash for the lake will be like the chase scene in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" icon_lol

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shawn

January 16, 2004, 03:47:29 PM

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Adam and I looked into it but it looks like its not a capability of the forum/isp. We would have to run a mail server to tie them together... It would be cool though! Maybe after I win the lottery this weekend (its over $50million!) We can buy our own ISP Cheesy

Adam

January 16, 2004, 05:27:17 PM

I bought a box of animal crackers and it said on it "Do not eat if seal is broken." So I opened up the box, and sure enough...
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alright..I have looked into this furthor and I think I can do it...(when Shawn said we looked into it he meant we discussed it while crappie fishing in the rain today.. icon_wink

) give me sometime to finish coding it...I have gotten it to connect to my mail server and retrieve messages but I am having trouble parsing the message into the database...I will also have to code some security restrictions and I will pick a handful of people to be able to be able to give live updates from the lake...

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Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to eat the ball to have a good time.

Adam

ScottB

January 17, 2004, 09:01:54 AM

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See......Dont say it cant be done. At least thats what my team lead tells me when I have a coding "opportunity" that looks like too much work!

Thanks Guys!

Scott

shawn

January 17, 2004, 10:07:55 AM

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Adam can't give me $1000 either (lets see if this one works as well as me saying the other can't be done) Cheesy

Adam

January 17, 2004, 11:38:17 AM

I bought a box of animal crackers and it said on it "Do not eat if seal is broken." So I opened up the box, and sure enough...
Group: Administrator
LLF Fishing Legend

Posts: 2626

well it is far from finished..for now we will test it and see what happens..now we just need Scott to go fishing and send us a message from the lake...

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Catch and Release fishing is a lot like golf. You don't have to eat the ball to have a good time.

Adam