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Browse through the site and laugh. That's pretty much all there is to it. You can send any card in the Tacky Postcard Archive to anyone who has an e-mail address. You can send as many cards as you like. They're all free. Advertising revenue pays for the site. Sometimes.top of page
Sending any card is easy. At the bottom of every card page is a button that says, "Send
Card." Just click on it to display a page that asks you to enter the name and address of you and your recipient. After you enter the information, click the "Preview" button to see how your card will look to the person
who receives it. Check both e-mail addresses to make sure they are correct, then press the "Send" button.
When someone sends you a card, you'll get a message that contains a long line of text like this: http://www.tackymail.com/cgi-bin/card?000000000000 The last 12 digits are your personal card number. Just click on this link and your card should appear. Some browsers (such as America Online) do not
display this text as a link. If nothing happens when you click on it. just copy the address and paste it into your Internet Location window, then press Enter. If you have difficulty retrieving a card,
What happens when you send a card? When you press the "Send" button, an e-mail message is automatically sent to notify the recipient that you've sent a card. This e-mail message contains nothing but text, by the way. It looks like this: Subject: You've got T-MAIL! [Recipient's Name], [Your Name] just sent you a card from the Tacky Postcard Archive. When the recipient clicks on the link, your card and message will be displayed. You will receive a brief e-mail message notifying you when the card was received.top of page
Sending a card to more than one person You can send as many cards to as many people as
you like, of course. But you have to send them one at a time. Our system doesn't support multiple recipients yet. If you want to send the same card to another person, just click your browser's Back button twice after
you send each card. That will bring you back to the input page where you can enter another recipient. Your own name and e-mail address will already be entered, so you won't have to retype them.
Each card includes the name and address of the person who sent it. To reply by e-mail, just click on the name of the sender. To reply in kind, click on the Tacky Postcard Archive name at the top of the page. You'll probably be able to find an even tackier one to send back.top of page
You can click on your card address to display it as often as you like, but after 10 days it will be deleted from our system. If you want to keep it, go to your browser's File menu and select Save. Be sure to save the page as HTML, not a plain text file (the file extension should be .htm or .html). The card will be saved on your computer, and you can display it at any time. Just start your browser, go to the File menu, and select Open File (or Open Local), then type in your card name.top of page
Most browsers have a "Send Page" option. When you receive a card, you can use this option to send the card to someone else. Another way to do it is to click on the link at the bottom of the page (the link that says "Click here to read about your card, or to reply"). This will display the original card as it appears in the Tacky Postcard Archive, and you can send it to anyone you like by clicking on the "Send Card" button.top of page
Sorry, cards will not be delivered unless there is a valid e-mail address for both sender and recipient. We require this for your protection, and to help prevent abuse of the system. But, hey, they know you have a sense of humor, right? top of page
Problems sending or receiving cards Incorrect e-mail addresses are the cause of most problems. Cards cannot
be received unless the e-mail addresses of both sender and recipient are entered correctly. They must be entered in this format:
name@domain.com (or .net, .org, .edu, etc.) Example: pjones@aol.com
When someone sends you a card, you're notified by an e-mail message. In it, you'll find your card address
(a long line of text beginning with http://). Most browsers display this as a link, and you can simply click on it to display your card. Some browsers (such as America Online) do not, and you must copy the address and paste it into your Internet Location window.
Error messages can help you identify a problem:
Not Found
-- If your card was sent more than 10 days ago, it has expired and is no longer available. If the card was sent more recently, this message could mean that you entered the card address incorrectly. Look in the email message that contains your card address and make sure you copy the
entire line of text, then paste it into your Internet Location window. Internal Server Error
-- This message usually means that the person who sent you the card entered his or her own e-mail address incorrectly. Ask the sender to try again, using the correct format (example: name@aol.com).
If you continue to have difficulty sending or receiving cards, please click here to notify the
We believe strongly that privacy should be protected, and we do so in several ways. Privacy
-- Every card sent is assigned a 12-digit number. This number is sent only to the card recipient, and no one else can see the card without this number. Every card number is unique, and never re-used, to eliminate the possibility of a card being seen by anyone other than the person you intended to see it.
Anonymity
-- We do not use, sell or share e-mail addresses. You will never receive any unwanted e-mail from mailing lists as a result of sending one of our cards. We send occasional update messages, but only to people who write to us, never to people who only send cards. In fact,
we don't even know
who sends our cards. We deliberately designed the system that way. This information is kept only in encrypted server logs in case it is ever needed to identify someone who abuses our system to send illegal or threatening messages. So far, that's never happened, and we hope it never will.
Security
-- Computer viruses cannot be transmitted by our cards. Our system is fully virus-shielded, of course, but there is a more reassuring reason. There is no known way to hide a virus in a plain-text e-mail message, and that's all we send to card recipients. In a widely publicized hoax recently, thousands of people were frightened by fears of a supposed e-card virus. The hoax was exposed when leading computer scientists proved that viruses just can't travel in text e-mail messages. So sending our cards is as safe as dropping a regular, cardboard postcard into a mail box. Probably safer, since you don't have to leave your home or office to do it.
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