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Internet Address Book For Telegard 3.x
by Darryl Perry, aka Gryphon, 1997
::What is IABOOK?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Internet Address Book is a means for callers to your Telegard BBS
to keep track of their often used Internet Email addresses. You've
seen them in all the popular internet email packages. Well, now
TG has one too.
::FEATURES
~~~~~~~~~~
IABOOK allows for ten pages of ten internet email addresses per user.
That is 100 Email addresses per user to your BBS. Also, there are
ten pages of ten addresses per page for PUBLIC access. Addresses
posted in the public areas can be seen byall users. Private addresses
can be seen only by the user who created the entry.
When an entry is selected, it launches the callers default message
editor, and stuffs the email address into the TO: field, thereby
bypassing the steps of trying to remember an archaic email address
and trying to type it in correctly, each time a caller wishes to
send email to this person.
Addresses can be entered and deleted on the fly with no intervention
by the sysop.
::INSTALLATION
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Installation is quite easy. Just follow these steps.
o Copy IABOOK.SCR into your Telegard Text directory.
o Edit the variable assignment MESGBOARD to reflect the menu
board number of your internet email board.
o Create a menu entry to access IABOOK.SCR. No command line
parameters are needed. If you don't know how to do this, take
a look at the TELEGARD.DOC file that comes with the Telegard
archive.
Thats' It! You are done!
::MAINTENANCE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Because of the method used to be able to create address entries, and
because of the potential volume of files created by IABOOK, it is the
most needed. Keep in mind that each caller can have up to 100 email
address entries, and if a board has 500 callers, there can be a
possibility of 50,000 files
The filenames of the files that are created are based on the callers'
TG ID number. This means, that if a caller creates several entries,
and is then his account is deleted from the TG userbase, and another
caller takes his old user ID, the new caller will be able to see all
of the old caller's email address entries.
The filename format should follow as such:
XXpXXXXn.SCR/MSG. 'p' is the page number (0-9), and 'n' is the
entry for that page. If a callers' user-ID is 00-0001, and he had
an entry of number 6 on page 4, the filename would be 00400016.SCR
and 00400016.MSG. So, to delete all entries for this caller, the dos
command of 'DEL 00?0001?.*' would kill only this deleted user's
entries.
::HOW TO CONTACT ME
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Internet : gryphon@eyriebbs.uu.holonet.net
Netmail : Gryphon @ 1:203/363 (fido) 7:130/0 (bluenet)
Echomail : TG_SUPPORT - TG_BETA
BBS : Gryphon's Eyrie BBS - 916.363.7485