[C320-list] C320 Owners list--important discussion

Thu Feb 2 05:19:54 PST 2006

I asked our webmaster how the member list works on our website. Following
are his remarks. It's way too technical for me to understand, but our
webmaster may. It also appears that it would involve some significant
programming, and as a result, may not be a cost we want to take on. He
responded to an email I sent through the site without knowing his email
address or other personal information, other than his name. This system
works really well, but may not be as common as I thought.

Denny Browne
A Cappella #935
Redondo Beach, CA

Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:07 AM
To: Denny Browne
Subject: Re: SCLR Member

Hi Denny -
A few years ago when I was club president my web site company was quiet over
the holidays so I spec'ed out the Clubhouse and assigned it to my programmer
to fill his time, and it has lasted ever since.

The Clubhouse is a group of Perl CGI scripts and HTML templates that control
a MySQL database on a hosted Linus/Apache web server.

Everyone's info, including email address, is stored in the MySQL database.
The Roster page dynamically builds itself from the database displaying the
info of those who opted in via the personal info screen.  When you click on
a members name and fill the resulting message box with text, the submit
button calls up one of the custom Perl CGI scripts that sends the email to
the member using the server's own mail application without disclosing the
recipient's address to the sender.

Something more simply could be done by using a tab-delimited text file as a
database, i.e.:

John Smith	jsmith at email.com
Peter Panther	ppanther at hotmail.com
Denny Browne	dennybrowne at verizon.net

Then, you would need a small custom CGI script (Perl, PGP, etc.) that would
create a web page with a list of members by pulling their names from the
first field of each line.  Clicking on a name would yield a message page
similar to in the Clubhouse.  When submitted, the CGI script would find the
email address associated with the person's name and use the server's email
program to send the email.  Of course, you'd need for someone to maintain
the list and occasionally upload a new list to the web server, unless you
also build a complicated login system like the Clubhouse within which
members maintain their own information.

Just a thought!  Feel free to reply with more questions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Denny Browne [mailto:dennybrowne at verizon.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:05 AM
To: 'C320-List'
Subject: RE: [C320-list] C320 Owners list--important discussion

The technology seems fairly common to allow each of us to post as much
personal information as we like, but make as much or as little available as
we'd like. I belong to a Land Rover club (SCLR.org) that provides this
functionality. You can click on a Member Roster hyperlink that takes you to
a list of members, city and Pic. Members have an option to attach pictures
of their Land Rovers to this hyperlink, although I don't really know how
they do that. You can only get to this page if you're a registered, dues
paying member. Once there, you can click on the member's name (another
hyperlink) and that'll open a screen allowing you to compose and send a
personal email. It does not reveal the member's email address. I just sent
myself one and after a couple of minutes, it hasn't arrived.

This mechanism seems pretty applicable to our needs. I'll send our webmaster
an offline note to ask how he performs this magic, but I'm sure it doesn't
require much of his time.

Denny Browne
A Cappella #935
Redondo Beach, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com
[mailto:C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of dickwalker at att.net
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:00 PM
To: C320-List; C320-List
Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 Owners list--important discussion

There may be some of these items that the baord might want to bring to vote
at the annual meeting.
--
Richard A. Walker, Ph.D. 
740 Olive Ave. 
Coronado, CA 92118-2136 
(619) 435-8986 

-------------- Original message from Jean-Pierre Salzmann
<jps1031 at pacbell.net>: -------------- 

> Russ: Your proposal of name, city, hul#, l boat name is excellent and I 
> second it. 
> 
> Jean-Pierre Salzmann 
> OM #880 
> 
> On Jan 26, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Russell Monaco wrote: 
> 
> > Hi everybody- 
> > Alot of you are interested in the copy of the Master List. I have 
> > given this some thought and would prefer to discuss this first. Alot 
> > of people may have some privacy concerns about such a list with 
> > persoanl data being circulated. What I propose to do is to post on 
> > the web site a membership roster for people to look at, this would 
> > include just the following: 
> > first name, last name, city, hull#, boat name. 
> > 
> > Please let me know what you think. In terms of those trying to get in 
> > touch with specific people, or groups of people I have in the past and 
> > will continue to respond to direct member requests for anmes 
> > address/emails etc, to help them form fleets etc. But i am hesitant 
> > in this day and age to simply be loose with our members personal data. 
> > 
> > What do you all think? 
> > Russ Monaco 
> > Commodre C320IA 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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