[OPLINTECH] Mailto links on public computers

[Phil Shirley]

I don't think the person who sent this to me would mind my posting the info:

hkey_classes_root> mailto > shell > open > command change value data
to path to

“c:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe” http://a.org/b.htm

where "a.org/b.htm" points to some useful web page on your server (so it 
would actually be cuyahogafallslibrary.org/mailto.htm or something, 
which would explain what was going on, what to do, and tell you to close 
the page when you're done reading it).

Phil

Phil Shirley wrote:
> 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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