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Re: LYNX-DEV addressing mail to your friends
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Nelson Henry Eric |
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Re: LYNX-DEV addressing mail to your friends |
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Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:41:33 +0900 (JST) |
I've been working on the "mailto:address@hidden problem" on
and off now for quite a while. I bit off more than I can chew because
I just can't write a script that works well enough to filter out the
garbage from the legitimate questions.
Lately I've been thinking a better approach is available to us,
especially now that Al has exposed that CC sham that us public-access
lynxers have known about for ages.
I think replacing the "mailto" URL with a form page would:
1) help people ask for help more effectively
2) reduce the amount of text that needs to be on "http://lynx.
browser.org/" itself
3) allow us to answer the three most repeated FAQs: `k' and
`H' keys and where to download the latest version, right
on the form page
4) discourage abuse of the CC sham by forcing people to at
least tab through the help form (also textarea is limited)
5) make it easy to bail out; and make it quite obvious what
the purpose of the form is, who will receive it, how to
read the responses, etc.
Sample form appended (AND ONLY THAT! NO MORE; STILL NEEDS WORK!).
__Henry
<html><head>
<title>Help with Lynx -*- Question Form</title>
</head><body>
<center><h3>Use this form to send in your help questions to
the lynx-dev mailing list.</h3></center>
If you cannot find out which keys do what, press `K' after getting
back to Lynx. On-line help is available in Lynx; press `H' or `?'.
The present official release of Lynx is 2-7-1. If your version is older
than that, questions regarding the handling of certain HTML tags or access
to certain URLs may not be applicable. Whenever possible please update.
You may download lynx2-7-1 or the current developmental source code from:<br>
<ul plain>
<li><a href="http://144.35.10.96/lynx/current/";>current development code</a>
<a href="ftp://144.35.10.96/pub/lynx/fote";>lynx2-7-1</a>
</ul>
Please enter your name and full e-mail address for a reply:<br>
<form METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="text/plain"
ACTION="mailto:address@hidden";
TITLE="Press [RET] to send message, ^G to cancel.">
Name: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name"><br>
E-mail: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="To: ">
<p>
Operating system: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="OS"><br>
Version of Lynx: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="LY_VER">
Message: <textarea NAME="message" COLS="70" ROWS="6">
</textarea><p>
<tab indent=20><em>*</em>[<INPUT TYPE="submit">]<em>*</em>
<em>*</em>[<INPUT TYPE="reset">]<em>*</em></tab>
</form>
</body></html>
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