Email forwarding problem

A real intellectual challenge!

[Michael Anthony]

My site sends sales leads by email to me, which are then auto-forwarded by message rules within Outlook Express dependent on the message content. The determinant factor in where they are forwarded is the product type chosen from a pick list by the client.

For one product type, I am trying to send an equal amount of leads to two different addresses in order to establish which of the two recipients provides the best conversion rate.

BUT I'm not clever enough to work out how to do this. I have considered splitting them by client name (e.g A-M, N-Z etc.) but this would not guarantee a perfect 50/50 split.

One solution which would work is to have each message allocated a sequential number so that they can then be split odd/even and forwarded accordingly, but I have no idea how I might achieve this.

FYI, the site is written in Frontpage and has no clever trickery at all, simply a form which is forwarded.

I've read somewhere that "a problem shared is a problem halved", so on this basis just by posting this I've made it a tiny tiny problem!

[edited by: Michael_Anthony at 9:30 pm (utc) on Jan. 9, 2003]

[georgeek]

With a short java script serve up one of two forms at random each with a different address?