Clone this E-mail Blaster for your State

If you want to create a copy of this site so RKBA people and Libertarians in your state can use it to send e-mail to the government goons in your state go thru the following steps.

Cloning this site is fairly easy and probably can be done in 15 minutes to a half hour if you have a basic knowlege of how to upload web pages and files. For a test I cloned the site in about 5 minutes. While the site uses two PERL programs to send the e-mails you really don't need to understand computer programming to clone the site. Even if you don't understand computers you can probably find someone who understands enought about the web to clone this web site.

If all that fails and you want my help go to the bottom of the page and I can help you create a site for your state.

Grab these two perl programs:

And get a copy of the formfile which is
brassroots.form

To set up your site you will need to create one file for each e-mail list you have. In my case I have 3 files, one a list of all members of the Arizona House, one a list of all members of the Arizona Senate, and the last file is a list of the combined Arizona Senate and House members which are:

Next create a free Tripod web site using this URL

http://www.tripod.com

Next you need to get a copy of these modules supplied by TRIPOD into your cgi-bin sub-directory:

  • TripodCGI.pm
  • TripodDate.pm
  • TripodInsert.pm
  • TripodMail.pm
  • TripodPage.pm
  • CGI.pm
Go to this URL and you can get TRIPOD to down the modules into your cgi-bin sub-directory:
https://www.tripod.lycos.com/build/module_library/copy.html
If you want to learn how to write cgi's Tripod has some help at
https://www.tripod.lycos.com/guides/cgi.html

Next copy these 3 files

into the cgi-bin sub-directory at your new site.

Also copy all your files which contain email addresses to the cgi-bin sub-directory. For my Arizona site these files are:

In your index.html or any other web page where you want people to be able to send e-mails to the lists you have defined code the

<a href=".....">
like this where you replace the stuff in red with what every filename or text you want for your site. 
<a href="http://your_site_name.tripod.com/cgi-bin/filelist.pl
      ?formname=brassroots.form
      &frommail=
      &subject=
      &title=Arizona%20Senators
      &file_prefix=senate.email
">
E-Mail your Arizona Senators
</a>
The first line which is
<a href="http://your_site_name.tripod.com/cgi-bin/filelist.pl
says that when they click on this URL we should run the PERL program filelist.pl in the cgi-bin sub-directory.

The next 3 lines are just constants

?formname=brassroots.form
&frommail=
&subject=

The next line tells what title to display on the from that they enter the e-mail information on to (note if you want to include spaces or special characters you have to code them in %hex. here the %20 is a hex for a space)

&title=Arizona%20Senators

And this line is that name of the file which contains the e-mail addresses of where the e-mails should be sent to

&file_prefix=senate.email

The last 3 lines close out the first <a> tag and define the text to display for the URL and provide the closing </a> tag:

">
E-Mail your Arizona Senators
</a>

Here are some examples on how to code the <a href=" "> tag.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
If you don't know anything about computers at all and want me to create the site for you I will do everything for $100. You will have to supply me with two files with the e-mail addresses of your states senators and house members. Give me an e-mail at:
I displayed the e-mail address as a picture to make life harder for the robots that search for e-mail addresses to send spam to.