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Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL

From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 19:48:54 +0000
Message-Id: <199511231948.TAA19728@gizmo.lut.ac.uk>
To: uri@bunyip.com 

Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no writes:

| Note that any system which sends mail without a manual check first
| is, IMHO, dangerous.
| So I certainly hope implementors of both mailto: and mailserver: URLs
| do this stuff carefully....

I hacked up a "mailserver:" patch for X Mosaic which snarfs the 
message into a regular "mailto:" type window.  This seems to be a 
sensible approach - cf. <URL:http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/~martin/Mosaic
-hacks/mailserver.patch>

Cheerio,

Martin
Received on Thursday, 23 November 1995 14:49:37 UTC

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