[OPLINTECH] Mailto links on public computers

[Phil Shirley]

Already got a private reply that one library sets a registry key to open 
a web page.

Phil Shirley wrote:
> 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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