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2/13/09

It still works.

Every now and then, it's nice to be reminded that something we coded a long time ago still works.

Back in 1999, when we started providing our own web hosting in-house, we needed a formmail script to replace the then-ubiquitous Matt's script formmail. At that time, Matt's script formmail was
pretty much the de-facto standard for formmailers.

So I wrote a little formmail script that accepted the same input parameters and generated the email. All of our web hosting clients have been using this script ever since.

So today, we were moving a new web hosting client's site to one of our web servers. Lo and behold, this web site has something like 75 Matt's script forms. We did a site-wide search-and-replace on the <form> tag, uploaded the site and presto - it worked like a charm.

Really, this is not a big deal - given all the current hoopla about AJAX, Ruby-on-Rails and Google Chrome, this is almost not even worth mentioning. It's just a little happy, about a some code I wrote almost a decade ago.