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Hi there,

I know I can define the subject line in my 'mailto-hyperlink', but is
it possible to define a text in the email itself (message field) via
the mailto-link? I would like to create a quick form this way, so
people can answer quickly on a couple of questions.

The link I use now is:

private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline

can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Bas <> writing
in news: ps.com:

> Hi there,
>
> I know I can define the subject line in my 'mailto-hyperlink', but is
> it possible to define a text in the email itself (message field) via
> the mailto-link? I would like to create a quick form this way, so
> people can answer quickly on a couple of questions.
>
> The link I use now is:
>
> private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
>
> can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
>
>

Using mailto as a form action is fraught with danger.

1. It depends on the user having an email client. What about people at
an Internet cafe, library, someone else's computer?

2. Some email clients, if there IS an email client, don't understand that
anyway, and just use the .

3. People can usually figure out what they want to use as the subject,
and will often change it.

Use a form processing script to send the information, not mailto.

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Bas wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I know I can define the subject line in my 'mailto-hyperlink', but is
> it possible to define a text in the email itself (message field) via
> the mailto-link? I would like to create a quick form this way, so
> people can answer quickly on a couple of questions.
>
> The link I use now is:
>
> private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
>
> can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
>

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

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In article <>,
Ed Mullen <> wrote:

> > private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
> >
> > can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
> >
>
> http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

Good one Ed.

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dorayme wrote:
> In article <>,
> Ed Mullen <> wrote:
>
>>> private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
>>>
>>> can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
>>>
>> http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
>
> Good one Ed.
>

I love Google. It makes me seem relatively intelligent.

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In article <FpGdnTJXS->,
Ed Mullen <> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <>,
> > Ed Mullen <> wrote:
> >
> >>> private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
> >>>
> >>> can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
> >>>
> >> http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
> >
> > Good one Ed.
> >
>
> I love Google. It makes me seem relatively intelligent.

You mean.. oh... you mean this link was not the product of
forensic research on your part ages ago and a good demo of what
is now part of your inner established knowledge. Never mind ...

(I have promised JK not to use smileys for a while. I like the
idea of doing this to see what further hot water I can get into
here).

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dorayme

dorayme wrote:
> In article <FpGdnTJXS->,
> Ed Mullen <> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>> In article <>,
>>> Ed Mullen <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> private.php?do=newpm&u=?subject=subjectline
>>>>>
>>>>> can this link be extended to add a predefine text in the messagefield?
>>>>>
>>>> http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
>>> Good one Ed.
>>>
>> I love Google. It makes me seem relatively intelligent.
>
> You mean.. oh... you mean this link was not the product of
> forensic research on your part ages ago and a good demo of what
> is now part of your inner established knowledge. Never mind ...
>
> (I have promised JK not to use smileys for a while. I like the
> idea of doing this to see what further hot water I can get into
> here).
>

Nah, took me about 45 seconds to do the search, read the link, copy the
link, and create the reply.

I think my next hobby is going to be brain surgery. Wanna volunteer?
Whoa! Not that I think you need brain surgery! No! But I will need
test subjects.

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In article <>,
Ed Mullen <> wrote:

> I think my next hobby is going to be brain surgery. Wanna volunteer?
> Whoa! Not that I think you need brain surgery! No! But I will need
> test subjects.

I know of one very good one right at this moment. Boji. He is up
for anything at any time.

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dorayme wrote:
> In article <>,
> Ed Mullen <> wrote:
>
>> I think my next hobby is going to be brain surgery. Wanna volunteer?
>> Whoa! Not that I think you need brain surgery! No! But I will need
>> test subjects.
>
> I know of one very good one right at this moment. Boji. He is up
> for anything at any time.
>

Ya know, I really walked right into that one. Sigh. Shoulda know better.

But, hey, I'm a neuro-surgical intern! I'm practicing. Wait, lemme
see, ok. Let's take a patient, deemed by the wise ones here as needing
brain surgery, and we'll subject him to my knife, amateurish as it might be.

Lemme think ... .... nah. We'd kill all the interesting posts that way.
And the pontificators would have no one to abase. Nah, let's just let
everyone have at everyone ... like it is.

I mean, who am I to try to bring any order or civility to this place?

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Ed Mullen wrote:

> I think my next hobby is going to be brain surgery. Wanna volunteer?
> Whoa! Not that I think you need brain surgery! No! But I will need
> test subjects.

That was one of my old hobbies. I drifted away from it -- everyone was
a head case.


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