method mailto forms

Hello ...

> The easier way to set a form page is using the for method mailto.
>
> I know many browser do not supporrt it. Also, the visitor must have an
> email client installed.
>
> Can you comment on the convenience of method mailto?.
>


It's the difference between the classroom and the real
world. If you are learning HTML, you can make a form with
the mailto method, you can upload it to your web site and it
will work - for you.

If you want to develop a purposeful web site that attracts
many visitors, you start thinking about your web pages in a
different way.

Interaction and communication with visitors is one of the
main objectives of most web sites. Anything which obstructs
it will diminish the value of your site (to you - not the
visitor, who can go somewhere else in less than one second).

The convenience of the mailto method is irrelevant. If it
doesn't work for ALL your visitors, it doesn't work at all
as a resource for building your Internet presence.

If your site has original and interesting content, you can
easily get hundreds of visitors every day - perhaps even
thousands. Other sites will link to you - that is what the
web is about, and it is what you want to happen - the more
the better. But now you will get visitors you don't want:
spam robots, whose only task is to hunt for mailto tags.

Lesson 1 of the SZS School of Internet Hard Knocks:
"Never put a mailto tag on any web page".

It's not a great idea to have your email address anywhere on
a web page. However, if you want to use Response-O-Matic or
AnyForm, your email address must be placed in a hidden
field.

A more common and sophisticated approach would be to call a
script with a codeword which would be used to get your email
address from a secure database. By definition, that means a
signup procedure. It is what most free form servers require,
but it is what we try to avoid.

If anyone finds a free form server with an email-friendly
signup procedure, PLEASE report it to this list.

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