# Mail addresses as URLs

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@www3.cern.ch)
Tue, 11 May 93 12:26:49 +0100

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    Date: Tue, 11 May 93 12:26:49 +0100

    From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

    Message-Id: <9305111126.AA02833@www3.cern.ch>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Mail addresses as URLs

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Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 06:02:18 -0400
From: tom@begbick.law.cornell.edu (Thomas R. Bruce)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, ccprl@xdm001.ccc.cranfield.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre"'s message of
Tue, 11 May 93 10:33:30 BST <9305110933.AA14460@xdm039>
Subject: Automatic reply in HTML

Peter:

I've already implemented something akin to your mailto: URL in Cello,
though not as detailed. My method may be slightly more in line with
URL syntax (or it may not, who knows) and looks like:

mailto://some.mail.host.dom/somebody

The behavior is for a mail form to pop up with the user's
(preconfigured in the MS-Windows equivalent of a .rc file) e-mail
address as sender, and with somebody@some.mail.host.dom as the
recipient. I thought it unnecessarily complicated to try to specify
the content of the message beyond this....

Incidentally, this works quite nicely with any kind of doc (such as
text returned from a CSO/qi server) which contains 'actionable' email
addresses, and provides a nice way to do staff directories and such.

Regards,
Tb.

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