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I wonder if it would be possible to make calendar submissions via e-mail?

This came to me as I was manually transferring an emailed announcement of a show into the Web form submission. It dawned on me that SurfGuitar101 should just be on the mailing list.

I suspect Brian would hate manually transcribing random format submissions himself, but there is probably a tool out there that accepts e-mailed announcements in some format (maybe the Web form format). And it is probably possible for this to be routed through an approval process monitored by Brian. Maybe some source addresses could even be placed on a pre-approved list.

At the band end it would be necessary for bands to include a standard format announcement somewhere in their emailing, maybe as an attachment, and to include the approrpiate SG101 email address in their mailing list.

This idea seems to me to have enough potential that it's probably already being done somewhere, unbeknownst to me.

Answering myself. Now there's a bad habit!

If the format for announcements was general enough - maybe XHTML or XML - it would be possible to paste it into a standard Web page, or a MySpace page, and style it for the context.

If the Web site or MySpace were equipped to handle this sort of mailing, too, you could add all of the appropriate "calendars" to a mailing list and handle them all in one swell foop.

I suppose that it all comes down to entering the announcement in a database table and building the page in question, or part of it, from that table. The formatting would be done with CSS and/or XSLT.

Interesting idea. Thanks.

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