oRox,

>> I'm also being to told that I should be using 'CONTS' with ASP. What do you think?
>
>have no clue, what is CONTS?

He's talking about CDONTS (Collaboration Data Objects for NT Server), which provides a simple COM object for sending email. Some ISP's have it installed already, some will install it, and some prefer 3rd party solutions like ASPMail, etc.

You can find CDONTS documented somewhere in MSDN Library.