Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/13/06 21:10

Nikita the Spider wrote:
> In article <4p9o5iFi0irpU1@individual.net>,
> Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Nikita the Spider wrote:
>>> A mail form != an email address hyperlink. The former is less convenient
>>> for the user.
>> Not necessarily, and altogether false for users not using an e-mail
>> client on their local machine, e.g., all users of web-based mail
>> services, many users of computers at their work place, and all users of
>> computers at libraries, Internet cafes, etc.
>
> Fair enough, I hadn't thought of those scenarios. But Web mail users
> *do* have an email client on their local machine -- the browser.

Well, of course I said it was false that an e-mail link is more
convenient, not false that it can be used! But it can't be used
directly. Clicking a link won't open the browser to a Compose Mail page
on the user's e-mail service. Instead, it may cause an error. Or, if an
e-mail client *is* installed, but configured for someone else, it could
open a new message window, letting the user cluelessly send an e-mail
under someone else's account.

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