[thelist] Dear fellows: Be carefull in your job, verycarefull

[Dan McCullough]

Well here is a good one.  I friend approached me about doing a script to
validate his form, required fields and email validation, so asked to see
the form, so he gave me the link.  Here is what I saw, had to look twice
to see if I was seeing it correctly.  

<form action="mailto:someemail at somedomain.com?Subject='Some subject'"
method="post">

This is where the head scraching started, I fired off an email and asked
if he had gotten any emails from this form and so on, and he asked if I
saw something the matter, and I told him, and he was like okay, and then
I said validating with javascript wouldn't help.  And then I told him
that I would find it annoying to fill out the form and then submit and
have it popup my email client and I would have to start over.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of derick
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:50 AM
To: 'Richard Davey'; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [thelist] Dear fellows: Be carefull in your job,
verycarefull

Hi,

To agree with Richard (and everyone else) and expand further, what about
customers that used email clients such as AOL? 

Did the company take into account that users of such software are often
novice internet users at best and would not understand why Outlook
Express
continued to open whenever they clicked on the mailto?

Potential business is lost with mailto links regardless of whether or
not
the address was correct, at least in my opinion.

Regards,

derick

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Richard Davey
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:13 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re[2]: [thelist] Dear fellows: Be carefull in your job, very
carefull

Hello,

Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 6:59:17 PM, you wrote:

MS> Well said Kasimir.  I would go even further.  From experience in
dealing
MS> with web business owners, I am wondering that the lack of a mailto:
link
MS> should be costing any significant potential.

If people cannot get in touch with you - they will nearly always give
up though. It is fair to assume it would cause /some/ problems.

On the plus side - screwing up the mailto link at least means the OP
has avoided causing them to get spam-bot harvested for the past 2 years
;)

Best regards,

Richard Davey
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