discussion webs and AOL mail

[Norman Plankey]

I have a customer who uses AOL - he is a technophobe and AOL provides him
with email access and news/stock info. He has a discussion web that I host
for him and about 18 months ago, some kids got in there and posted a lot of
foul language nonsense. It became a big deal for him because the discussion
is centered around his golf course business and he was getting ready for a
very high profile corporate tournament. He had me clean it up and restrict
posting privileges to registered users only -- needless to say, no one has
since posted there.

What I would like to do is use Sharepoint features to auto-generate email to
him whenever the discussion is added to - that way he'll know on a daily
basis if there have been any shenanigans.

If I can get this to work, then I will be able to open access up to all,
once again.

My questions are as follows:

Is there a web-based how-to for setting up this auto-generation, using FP
2002? I have physical access to the server.

And, how would I configure mail setting for AOL -- (smtp name?)

 

[David Berry]

This isn't something you can do with FrontPage's built-in DW. You'd need to
do your own coding. Did you say you want to use SharePoint? Your best
alternative would be an ASP or ASP.NET based discussion web where you can
have emails sent, moderated groups (posts don't get posted until they are
approved), a bad word filter etc.

For ASP try http://forum.snitz.com/ or
http://www.takempis.com/aboutdiscussion.htm
For ASP.NET see www.asp.net

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

To get an email each time a DW is posted to open the post page in FP and in Code view ad the following to your webbot tag
S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)" S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE"




| I have a customer who uses AOL - he is a technophobe and AOL provides him
| with email access and news/stock info. He has a discussion web that I host
| for him and about 18 months ago, some kids got in there and posted a lot of
| foul language nonsense. It became a big deal for him because the discussion
| is centered around his golf course business and he was getting ready for a
| very high profile corporate tournament. He had me clean it up and restrict
| posting privileges to registered users only -- needless to say, no one has
| since posted there.
|
| What I would like to do is use Sharepoint features to auto-generate email to
| him whenever the discussion is added to - that way he'll know on a daily
| basis if there have been any shenanigans.
|
| If I can get this to work, then I will be able to open access up to all,
| once again.
|
| My questions are as follows:
|
| Is there a web-based how-to for setting up this auto-generation, using FP
| 2002? I have physical access to the server.
|
| And, how would I configure mail setting for AOL -- (smtp name?)
|
| --
|
| regards,
| N--
|
|