- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:03:57 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:25a -0800 01/21/99, Ann Navarro wrote: >True, however, since these mailto schemes are being used for both forms and >simple links, and most users (and web sites that use them for forms) don't >know the difference, you end up with quite a few broken forms. The casual >surfer won't have a clue that their form response didn't get sent -- or >sits and wonders why their email program just popped up with a blank >message in it -- not connecting this to a failure in the mailto action. I seem to vaguely recall that there is a web site out there which provides a sort of form-forwarding service -- you set the action attribute to their cgi, and it forwards the (decoded/formatted) form data to you via email. Sorry I don't remember their name, and I don't know if they're selling something, but maybe a search on "form", "mail", "forward", and "service" might turn up a link or two. It wouldn't be a hard cgi to write, so I wouldn't be surprised if more than one such service exists. -Walter
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