Yeah I guess, that way you could just close your hotmail account periodically and open new ones. I'm a filter junkie myself and consider the "junk" a challange.
As for putting a site on CD Rom:
AFAIK there is no way to put an actual RDMS and ASP on a CD. The site would have to be executed by a web server like IIS or PWS. Assuming that the user has it on their computer, their settings would still have to be changed to include the CD ROM path in the IIS Document Root... Well, you get the picture.
Putting a site on CD ROM pretty much requires you to turn it "static" or into a combination of HTML and Javascript at best. You can't have any server side stuff like ASP or PHP in the pages because there will be no "server" to parse them.
For one client, I wrote a set of functions to do this exact thing. The run the utilities to generate a "static" version of their site that they then burn into CD's for promotional hand outs. It's a pain, and every site is pretty much a custom job.
Depending on the type of server side processing you do, you have to do different types of conversion for diffent types of dynamic content:
1) Page segments generated from table data, like a list of branch offices, can be converted to static pages pretty easily.
2) Pages generated from selected or subsetted table data are a bit more tricky. You can convert the dynamic content generator to javascript that uses variable data from an array that is hard-loaded by your conversion program from the real database on your server.
3) Search functions are a royal pain and usually left out of CD ROM'd sites.
4) And of course, if your website static content changes, you will also have to modify the templates for your CD ROM image maker, too.
Since you mention ASP, there is a good chance that there might be some tools out there to help you with the conversion, but I havn't seen any.
Hope This Helps
-- Rich
