- From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 15:25:44 -0800
- To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
Martin Hamilton writes: > > 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> Definitely. I was glad to see that from the start the mailserver spec said that all user agents should _require_ user interaction before sending the message. If we go to an expanded mailto: URL as well, then this should be part of the new draft. -Bill P.
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