Automatic reply in HTML

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Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 06:02:18 -0400
From: tom@begbick.law.cornell.edu (Thomas R. Bruce)
Message-id: <9305111002.AA00362@begbick.law.cornell.edu.law.cornell.edu>
To: p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
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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