# Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL

William Perry (wmperry@spry.com)
Thu, 23 Nov 1995 15:25:44 -0800

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    Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 15:25:44 -0800

    From: William Perry <wmperry@spry.com>

    Message-Id: <199511232325.PAA01467@monolith.spry.com>

    To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

    Subject: Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL

    In-Reply-To: <199511231948.TAA19728@gizmo.lut.ac.uk>

     <199511231948.TAA19728@gizmo.lut.ac.uk>

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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