news: November 2006 Archives

Do you have your own domain? If you're like me, you like getting feedback from visitors to your site, but you hate getting spammed. Also, if you have a crappy hosting company like mine, they've probably disabled sendmail on your server, so you can't even write your own Perl scripts to send feedback. Until now.

A while ago I realized that my feedback form didn't need to actually send me email. Since my browser has a built-in feed reader, I could just create a special RSS feed on my site for visitor feedback. Thus was born FEEDback.

FEEDback is a Perl script that I wrote for this purpose that I figured others might benefit from, so now I'm making it available for download.

Instructions for customizing it are included in the file, and you can see an example of how it works on my contact page. If you have any questions, or suggestions for improvement, feel free to leave me a comment.