[thelist] mailto: long body text

[Joel D Canfield]

jeff, can you clarify? As I see it, Tyme wants to provide a ready-made
e-mail message to certain people. If I were a visitor wanting to send one of
these messages, I'd want to see it before it was sent on my behalf. How
would you do that with server side mail? (I use CDONTS on our intranet quite
a bit, but it's for routing purposes and it's immaterial for the user to see
the messages.)

Thanks for any tips you can provide.

joel at spinhead.com

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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of .jeff
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:46 PM
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Subject: RE: [thelist] mailto: long body text


tyme,

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> From: Tyme
>
> Anyone got any ideas here?  I might have better luck
> with ASPMail or such, but actually prefer to use the
> mailto: in this case.
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with the dramatic increase of web-based mail users over the past year+, why
would anyone lean towards a standard mailto: link -- especially when these
web-based mail users are generally newer users that may not know how to
right-click and copy a mailto: link and break it up into its constituent
parts on the compose page?  no, i'm thinking that if *ever* you feel the
need to use anything more than just the email address in the mailto: link,
it's time to use some server-side mail sending functionality.  in fact, if
your audience is made up of a disproportionate number of newer users, aol
users, etc. then *all* email contact on the site should go through a contact
form by default with mailto: links available as a second option for the more
advanced users.

just my 2 pence,

.jeff

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