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|  PotOnWheel Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 9890 | Posted 12/8/2002 5:45 PM (GMT -6) |   | | | |
 |  Chucks3371 Registered Member
 Date Joined Oct 2002 Total Posts : 28 | Posted 12/8/2002 5:55 PM (GMT -6) |   | quote:
www.raptureletters.com/letter.html
(You know you are gonna click it!)
it says
quote:
We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place (on the first Friday after the rapture), and you and I have been taken to heaven.
I gotta wonder how they wrote that computer program!
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 |  GregBoyd Registered Member
 Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 1818 | Posted 12/12/2002 3:57 AM (GMT -6) |   | How much do they charge for this service?
Is it payable AFTER the "rapture"?
If the program doesn't work, how do we get our money back?
And (here's my morbid curiousity), one wonders what the letter would say.
"Dear Bruce, my friend, I'm gone. You're not.
TOLD YA SO!!!
then comes the song, "Life was filled with guns and war, and everyone got trampled on the floor. I wish we'd all been ready. There's no time to change your mind, the Son has come, and you've bee
LEFT BEHIND"
"In Christ...the ONLY THING that matters is faith energized by love." Galatians 5:6 | | Back to Top | | |
 |  PotOnWheel Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 9890 | Posted 12/12/2002 12:01 PM (GMT -6) |   | Oooooo, that's baaaaaaaad.
Only question for me is: Do I show my kids those Larry Norman records I bought in the early seventies; or do I make them vanish? | | Back to Top | | |
 |  JCsites.com Registered Member
 Date Joined Jun 2001 Total Posts : 169 | Posted 12/26/2002 3:44 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hey gang,
Saw this post. Gets my curiousity flowing. How could this guy really do this? I mean programatically speaking? Seems impossible to me. So I did some web sluething to find out more about the web site owner.
Got his e-mail address and fired off this e-mail. I Don't expect a response, but thought I'd share it with you all.
Honestly, I wonder if this is a evil way for some spam king to get valid e-mail addresses from well meaning christians! Here's my letter: quote: Scott,
I saw a posting on a popular discussion board that had a URL to your site. The posting was on: http://www.gregboyd.org/gbfront/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1633
So I checked out your site. I have a question. How does your program work? If you are a Christian, you'll be gone if the pre-trib rapture happens right? So then, who will be available to run your program and send out e-mails?
I can't figure out how you could script a program to auto send after rapture i.e.
<% if rapture then send email to: allRecip end if %>
Because know one knows the exact time the rapture will happen. So how does your program work? Is it set to send the message if you don't check in everyday? That's the only way I can possibly concieve of it working. If so you are one dedicated dude! I might have the self-discipline to log into a program each day and tell I'm still here, for about 1 year, maybe.
In fact, I bet if I didn't log in to tell it I'm here, but I really am, then it would send the messages as planned, I bet I'd have a mess on my hands. At least bad PR for Jesus. But it'd make headlines somewhere I'm sure. So I'd be afraid to build a program that required my self discipline to check in!
Anyway, I was curious. Thought I'd see if you'd clue me in. I don't claim to be a brilliant programmer, but I'm sure if your program really works, then you've got a way to acheive the task that I can't concieve of and I hate not knowing how you do this.
JCsites guy
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 |  JCsites.com Registered Member
 Date Joined Jun 2001 Total Posts : 169 | Posted 12/28/2002 3:23 PM (GMT -6) |   | Well I stand corrected. This is a real service for sure. Here's the response I got: quote: Dear Dave;
The web site is set on a reset default system. (Kind of like an if -then statement) It is reset periodically which does require a little diligence on my part.
Thanks for your concern
God Bless
Raptureletters.com
Basically what he's saying is that somewhere around 6 - 100 times a year he has to manually reset the program. But it is real and assuming his website is operational when the rapture comes, and assuming that the internet as we know it works the same as it does now, it should work. 
Don't think I use it cause what if next year he forgets to reset the program? All my friends will get an e-mail telling them I was not abducted by aliens, that in fact I was raptured. They my friends will call me and I'll be there to answer the phone. Kind of kills the intended effect.
Ya o.k. I admit it, I'm being a programming snob. Bad JCsites guy!
JCsites guy
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 |  Tom Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 10353 | Posted 12/28/2002 5:32 PM (GMT -6) |   | JCsites: ...it is real and assuming his website is operational when the rapture comes, and assuming that the internet as we know it works the same as it does now, it should work. 
Tom: And...assuming HE goes in the rapture so he's not here to reset the program!
Tom
"When you mix things up they get messy" Fred | | Back to Top | | |
 |  JCsites.com Registered Member
 Date Joined Jun 2001 Total Posts : 169 | Posted 12/28/2002 5:57 PM (GMT -6) |   | | | |
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