Saturday, July 20, 2002
A new contact form
Posted by Jason Dunn in "UPDATE" @ 02:00 AM
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/contact.php
Not the most exciting thing I've ever announced, but we now have a new contact form. It will hopefully cut down on the amount of spam we get to the news@ alias, since most spam harvesters don't scan HTML code (I hope). You can keep using news@ in your email, but I hope that people who have always wondered how to submit Pocket PC news will find this easier than ever (and you can submit news anonymously). Nothing special on the form, but you can pick who you want the message to go to - the entire team, individual members, etc. We've actively removed all our email addresses off the site - this form is your single point of contact if you don't already have our email addresses in your address book.
It's all nicely done in PHP, with special thanks to the second of my PHP Samurai, Elad Yakobowicz (a.k.a. EmXtrix). I've been meaning to create a nice contact form for quite some time, but other matters always seemed more importance. Elad asked me if he could help, and help me he did! Thanks Elad!
There is one problem with it, however. It seems that 50% of the time, it's incredibly slow, taking 30+ seconds to process. The email always gets sent, but the other 50% of the time it takes half a second to process. Everyone helping me with this is totally stumped, and I need someone who knows a lot about Linux server administration to take a look at our server configuration - we're clearly not doing something correct.
Not the most exciting thing I've ever announced, but we now have a new contact form. It will hopefully cut down on the amount of spam we get to the news@ alias, since most spam harvesters don't scan HTML code (I hope). You can keep using news@ in your email, but I hope that people who have always wondered how to submit Pocket PC news will find this easier than ever (and you can submit news anonymously). Nothing special on the form, but you can pick who you want the message to go to - the entire team, individual members, etc. We've actively removed all our email addresses off the site - this form is your single point of contact if you don't already have our email addresses in your address book.
It's all nicely done in PHP, with special thanks to the second of my PHP Samurai, Elad Yakobowicz (a.k.a. EmXtrix). I've been meaning to create a nice contact form for quite some time, but other matters always seemed more importance. Elad asked me if he could help, and help me he did! Thanks Elad!
There is one problem with it, however. It seems that 50% of the time, it's incredibly slow, taking 30+ seconds to process. The email always gets sent, but the other 50% of the time it takes half a second to process. Everyone helping me with this is totally stumped, and I need someone who knows a lot about Linux server administration to take a look at our server configuration - we're clearly not doing something correct.
