[OPLINTECH] Mailto links on public computers

[Phil Shirley]

Has anyone one come up with any good way of dealing with mailto links on 
public computers?  These are the links that want to open in your default 
mail client, which isn't always appropriate, especially on public 
computers.

I would like to find a way to make the "default mail client" on a PC 
actually be a script or something that opens a web page explaining how 
to get the information from these links and then use it in their own 
email ("right click and select 'properties' to find the email 
address...").  I can create a shortcut or a script to open a web page 
like this, but when I tried (a few years ago) to get Windows to accept 
this as the default mail client I couldn't get it.  (That was 2000; what 
I want to do it in now is XP.)

Someone told me that a public library has a mail client (maybe Outlook 
Express) set up on the public computers with an actual email account 
that can send email.  If anyone's done that I'd be interested in hearing 
about it - I'm really not inclined to give the public access to a mail 
account that I'm responsible for, and I would think people would prefer 
to send the message from an account where they can get a reply.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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