E-Mail-Only Form Sample
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The mission of SocialTechnology.ca, (whatever it is), is unlikely to succeed if we have to depend on people with web browsers. The first attempt to enlarge the community is to include people who do not have access to the web, just e-mail access. Here is an e-mail-only version of a form similar to the form What Do You Want (Browser Challenged Version) :
This message is an e-mail version of a webpage form. It has been generated and sent to you at the request of UserNameWillBeHere. If you do have access to the World Wide Web you may want to visit the original webpage, which is at wdywnojv.html but many of the people receiving this form by e-mail do not have web access. This e-mail-only form can be a substitute for the web form. Less convenient, but good enough. If you do not have web access, you can fill out forms and receive results entirely by e-mail. Complete instructions for filling out this form will be found immediately after the form itself, near the end of the message. What Do You Want? Social Technology for Individuals A new free service will help people make good social connections, better than you can probably imagine. If you wish to participate, please fill out this form to tell us what you want the most. All submitted information will be kept confidential. You can also protect yourself by using an alias and can even use a special private e-mail address or e-mail forwarding service. Currently this is not a commercial endeavour -- you should think of it as a research project trying to join the real world. Both commercial and non-profit spinoffs are being planned. For more information, see the contact addresses at the end of the message. There are other versions of this form -- this one is for what you most want right now. You can request other versions by mail sent to the contact addresses given below. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOWING THE FORM BEFORE TRYING TO COMPLETE IT. What Do You Want the Most? Rating Description ___ a good job ___ new friends ___ partners for business ventures ___ education ___ romantic love ___ a place to live ___ roommates or house mates ___ sexual relationships ___ political activities ___ e-mail penpals and mailing lists ___ a mentor or advisor ___ a young person to advise and instruct ___ good employees ___ a social or political cause ___ a co-authors to help write something ___ other athletes to train with ___ comfortable or stimulating social events ___ good books to read, videos to see, music to listen to ___ sports and games to play, and people to play with ___ new enterprises to invest in ___ discussion groups Your Suggestions If you think we've missed something important in compiling the above list, please tell us. Here is space for three other items, which you can then rate as you did above. Rating Description ___ ____________________________________ ___ ____________________________________ ___ ____________________________________ The quality of this service depends on the number of people involved. Inviting other people to participate will improve this service and help us all. Therefore, all web forms posted on SocialTechnology.ca as part of this project contain a final section which asks the user to recommend the site to other users and send it by e-mail to people without web access. You can recommend our site to people you know have web access by entering their e-mail addresses here: _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ You can also send people who perhaps do not have web access copies of this form by entering their e-mail addresses here: ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ If you prefer you could achieve the same purpose another way by simply forwarding this message to them. The "From" field in your e-mail header message will be used to indicate that the message was generated at your request. ___ Is this OK? (YES or NO) If you answer 'NO' the message will simply say that it was generated at the request of a user who wishes to remain anonymous. Many people consider anonymous messages spam, even if they were generated by someone they might know, so we will provide a way for them to suppress all such messages in the future. Your User Identification (see below for details) ___________________ user name (please don't use your real name) ___________________ e-mail address (not your usual one, if possible) ___________________ password (anything, but do remember it for next time) PLEASE READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE TRYING TO FILL IN ANYTHING ON THIS FORM We don't want to know who you are. We want to be able to tell if the same person who filled out this form filled out previous or subsequent ones, but we don't need to know your actual name. So please use an alias, preferably one that people won't easily guess. For the sake of privacy and security we ask our users on the web to get a free e-mail account and e-mail address from one of the many sites that provide free webmail. Users who have only e-mail access may be restricted to a single e-mail address the clearly identifies them. In that case it will be hard for you to remain anonymous, so you will just have to trust us to protect your privacy as best we can. (Please keep reading -- don't try to fill in anything until you've read all the instructions.) The instructions regarding user identification just given are specific to e-mail-only users. For your information, this is what we tell web users: Do NOT use your own name or ordinary e-mail address. The user name given here should be an alias chosen to conceal your identity, and the e-mail address should be one obtained specifically for this purpose from one of the services which provides free webmail. If you haven't obtained and registered an e-mail address, please do so now. Click here [web users only] for instructions and a registration form. Registration is free. Users do not pay for any part of this service. Here are specific instructions for filling out the numerical part of the form near the top of the page: Place a number from 1 (least wanted) to 10 (most wanted) in the blank beside each item. You may leave blanks empty if you don't know or don't want to answer. Ideally you should have just one item with a 1 beside it and just one item with a 10 beside it, but if nothing in the list above is that important or that worthless to you, you can use less extreme ratings. Please don't give all the items listed the same rating, as that tells us very little about you. This form asks what you want right now, not how important these things are to society. Another form will cover overall importance. You should give a low rating like 1 or 2 for things you don't want right now, regardless of why you don't want them. You should give a low rating like 1 or 2 for things you don't want right now for the simple reason that you are satisfied with what you already have in that area. For example, if you have a good job you love doing, you should put a 1 beside "a good job" because you're not looking for a new job. You should give a high rating like 9 or 10 for things you very much DO want right now, regardless of why you want them. You should give a high rating like 9 or 10 for things you want very much right now, even if you don't think them very important to society as a whole. For example, if you don't think sports are really important to society, but still do have a passion for them and badly want to find a good team to play with, then you should put a 10 beside "sports and games to play, and people to play with". (Please keep reading -- don't try to fill in anything until you've read all the instructions.) To complete the form in this message, first copy the whole message into your reply, then edit the message to supply the answers. On many systems you can just hit the 'reply' button and the whole message will be copied for you. If your mailer adds a header paragraph at the beginning, or a footer at the end of the message, or inserts a ">" or some similar symbol at the beginning of each copied line, our system will understand and ignore these additions. But please don't edit or alter the form in other ways. Whatever your mailer adds is OK, and of course you must replace blanks with answers, but please don't change anything else. Our form processor is smart, but not smart enough to handle arbitrary changes. At various places in this form you will find a blank like this ___ which you should replace by typing in the correct answer according to the instructions on the form. So if the instructions tell you to answer 'YES' or 'NO' and found a question that asked : Do you understand these instructions? ___ you should reply to this message replacing '___' with 'YES' or 'NO', so the result might look like this : Do you understand these instructions? YES If your answer would have been 'NO' because you do not understand these instructions, or if you just want further information, just send a message to forminfo@SocialTechnology.ca and you will receive more information in the mail. That information will include a list of available forms and tell you how to have them e-mailed to you. We are looking for volunteers to translate these forms and messages into other languages, or to correct machine-made translations. If you want to help with translations or other aspects of the project, please send a message to our general information address, info@SocialTechnology.ca and you will receive much more information. Once you have completed this form, the only thing that remains is to mail it to us. If your mailer understood the "reply-to" field in our message correctly, it will have addressed the message to mailedforms@SocialTechnology.ca but if not you may have to manually enter that address. Thank you for your time. We will e-mail results to the e-mail address given above or to the same address this message was sent to if you left that field blank. At the moment we can not say how long you will have to wait. That depends on how many people respond to our forms. If results cannot be mailed within a few days we will send a progress report with more information.
Copyright (c) 2000 Douglas P. Wilson
New: Social Technology through Diagrams
New: Social Techs novel online
The main Social Technology page.
Find Compatibles, the key page, with the real solution to all other problems explained
Technological Fantasies , a page about future technology
Social Tech a page about Social Technology, technology for social purposes. I think I was the first person to use this phrase on the Internet, quite a long time ago.
Roughly corresponding to these web pages are the following blogs:
Social Technology the main blog, hosted on this site, with posts imported from the following blogger.com blogs, which still exist and are useable.
Find Compatibles devoted to matching people with friends, lovers, jobs, places to live and so on, but doing so in ways that will actually work, using good math, good algorithms, good analysis.
Technological Fantasies devoted to future stuff, new ideas, things that might be invented or might happen, such as what is listed above and below.
Sex-Politics-Religion is a blog about these important topics, which I have been told should never be mentioned in polite conversation. Alright that advice does seem a bit dated, but many people are still told not to bring up these subjects around the dinner table.
I believe I was the first person on the Internet to use the phrase Social Technology -- years before the Web existed.
Those were the good old days, when the number of people using the net exceeed the amount of content on it, so that it was easy to start a discussion about such an upopular topic. Now things are different. There are so many web pages that the chances of anyone finding this page are low, even with good search engines like Google. Oh, well.
By Social Technology I mean the technology for organizing and maintaining human society. The example I had most firmly in mind is the subject of Find Compatibles, what I consider to be the key page, the one with the real solution to all other problems explained.
As I explained on my early mailing lists and later webpages, I find that social technology has hardly improved at all over the years. We still use representative democracy, exactly the same as it was used in the 18th century. By contrast, horse and buggy transporation has been replaced by automobiles and airplanes, enormous changes.
In the picture below you will see some 18th century technology, such as the ox-plow in the middle of the picture. How things have changed since then in agricultural technology. But we still use chance encounters, engagements and marriages to organize our home life and the raising of children.
I claim that great advances in social technology are not only possible but inevitable. I have written three novels about this, one preposterously long, 5000 pages, another merely very very long, 1500 pages. The third is short enough at 340 pages to be published some day. Maybe. The topic is still not interesting to most people. I will excerpt small parts of these novels on the web sometime, maybe even post the raw text for the larger two.
This site includes many pages dating from 1997 to 2008 which are quite out of date. They are included here partly to show the development of these ideas and partly to cover things the newer pages do not. There will be broken links where these pages referenced external sites. I've tried to fix up or maiintain all internal links, but some will probably have been missed. One may wish to look at an earlier version of this page, rather longer, and at an overview of most parts of what can be called a bigger project.
Type in this address to e-mail me. The image is interesting. See Status of Social Technology
Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, Douglas Pardoe Wilson
I have used a series of e-mail address over the years, each of which eventually became out of date because of a change of Internet services or became almost useless because of spam. Eventually I stuck with a Yahoo address, but my inbox still fills up with spam and their spam filter still removes messages I wanted to see. So I have switched to a new e-mail service. Web spiders should not be able to find it, since it is hidden in a jpeg picture. I have also made it difficult to reach me. The picture is not a clickable link. To send me e-mail you must want to do so badly enough to type this address in. That is a nuisance, for which I do apologize, but I just don't want a lot of mail from people who do not care about what I have to say.