Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:23:30PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels. Strangely enough, I think we'd find more use for

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 21, 2005, at 09:29, Mark Komarinski wrote: We're a pretty large family, so my wife and I send out 150-200 cards a year. Doing a mail merge for the labels would be a lot easier. Now all we need is a program to generate randomly-variant handwriting output on an inkjet printer so it doesn't

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On 4/21/05, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:29:21 -0400 Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd? This information isn't available for search. But information entrusted to Yahoo is available for _sale_. (Wouldn't

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: I don't think so: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ab/details.html Like nearly every other privacy policy on the web, such policies are SUBJECT TO REVISION AT ANY TIME: : This page describes current Yahoo! practices with respect to this : particular service. This

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 21, 2005, at 10:56, Tom Buskey wrote: * Yahoo! does not use any information stored in your Yahoo! Address Book for any marketing or commercial purpose. They could have said, Yahoo! does not share any information stored in your Yahoo! Address Book with any third party, but they didn't.

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But information entrusted to Yahoo is available for _sale_. (Wouldn't Mark's brother appreciate that even less?) Yeah, but if Mark can a good price for his brother, who are we to argue? -- Seeya, Paul ___

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now all we need is a program to generate randomly-variant handwriting output on an inkjet printer so it doesn't actually look like we're geeks who think hand addressing Christmas cards is a waste of time. (non-geeks consider it a sign that you care)

Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
I'm looking for some sort of contact management so that family members can easily look up information (birthdates, phone numbers, mailing address, etc.). Being web-based and passing the Mom test would both be plusses, along with some sort of access control so it doesn't get caught by google and

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:47 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: along with some sort of access control so it doesn't get caught by google and find my brother's home address there. He wouldn't appreciate it. Wouldn't a simple robots.txt file prevent this kind of thing? -- Give a man a match, and

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Buskey
How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd? This information isn't available for search. Of course you'd have an issue with controlling edits/etc.. Yahoo can also be sync'd with a Palm (on a PC). On 4/20/05, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some sort of contact

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd? This information isn't available for search. Of course you'd have an issue with controlling edits/etc.. Yahoo can also be sync'd with a Palm (on a PC). For that matter, how about an htpasswd protected Wiki?

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:40:26PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about a Yahoo account w/ a shared passwd? This information isn't available for search. Of course you'd have an issue with controlling edits/etc.. Yahoo can also be sync'd with a Palm

Re: Family-friendly contact manager

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels. Strangely enough, I think we'd find more use for that than easily looking up e-mail addresses. The Scene: December in