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Billy Brethren · Nov 1st, 2004, 6:40 PM

Wow. This is the second forum where WHY I want to do this is more relevant that what or how. This must be an indicator of the current "culture" of Programmers, apparantly in reaction to spam & spammers.

I could probably write an entire essay on this subject, but really I came to a technical forum to get technical information.

For the record, the messages I want to send is not "spam" in the sense that it is an advertisment for a product or service in exchange for money. I will not profit once cent in this endeavor, nor will anyone else. I used the phrase "public announcements" in the most political sense. I will be perfectly happy to fully inform any technically informed and helpful person that wants to know while they are helping me to inform myself, but really I can't see how it is anyone's business or why they would even care.

As far as the technical end of the situation, all these "forums" are owned & operated by one company, they all have the exact same format and so I can do all the logging "on" & "off" with one username and one password (mine) and that (and how) I do this is perfectly legitimate. It's simply that it would be a full-time job doing each of these posts one at a time, and I would like to have the ability to send my message to everyone all at once.

I am not so concerned with the security issues, rather I just need help in setting up (what I thing of as) the "For-Next" loop, the data set for the various web-addresses and the completely repetitive keystrokes for logging on & off.

This can't possibly be "rocket science", and the amount of "spam" in the universe is not going to increase one byte by my actions. I think what I want to do is VERY interesting, and would be willing to share with a helpful person.

I appreciate the suggestion for PHP; it is the second time I have heard it. I went to a PHP web-site and perused their "tutorial" and it looked extremely difficult to learn.

HTML can't send keystrokes ? HTML can't read from a data set and run a loop that picks up the NEXT data at each iteration ?

This seems so simple to me. I thought HTML was an actual language that could do things. Is it better described as a protocol ?

Thanks in advance.

Billy Brethren

Nov 1st, 2004, 6:40 PM	#3
Billy Brethren Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Wow. This is the second forum where WHY I want to do this is more relevant that what or how. This must be an indicator of the current "culture" of Programmers, apparantly in reaction to spam & spammers. I could probably write an entire essay on this subject, but really I came to a technical forum to get technical information. For the record, the messages I want to send is not "spam" in the sense that it is an advertisment for a product or service in exchange for money. I will not profit once cent in this endeavor, nor will anyone else. I used the phrase "public announcements" in the most political sense. I will be perfectly happy to fully inform any technically informed and helpful person that wants to know while they are helping me to inform myself, but really I can't see how it is anyone's business or why they would even care. As far as the technical end of the situation, all these "forums" are owned & operated by one company, they all have the exact same format and so I can do all the logging "on" & "off" with one username and one password (mine) and that (and how) I do this is perfectly legitimate. It's simply that it would be a full-time job doing each of these posts one at a time, and I would like to have the ability to send my message to everyone all at once. I am not so concerned with the security issues, rather I just need help in setting up (what I thing of as) the "For-Next" loop, the data set for the various web-addresses and the completely repetitive keystrokes for logging on & off. This can't possibly be "rocket science", and the amount of "spam" in the universe is not going to increase one byte by my actions. I think what I want to do is VERY interesting, and would be willing to share with a helpful person. I appreciate the suggestion for PHP; it is the second time I have heard it. I went to a PHP web-site and perused their "tutorial" and it looked extremely difficult to learn. HTML can't send keystrokes ? HTML can't read from a data set and run a loop that picks up the NEXT data at each iteration ? This seems so simple to me. I thought HTML was an actual language that could do things. Is it better described as a protocol ? Thanks in advance. Billy Brethren