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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Oct 28, 2009 5:30AM

Mailto links ... where to start. Here is a link to some issues that I agree
with:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/12/06/10-reasons-to-avoid-mailto-lin
ks/

In my experience, back in university and in corporate work environments,
mailto links would default to a mail client assigned to your system user
profile (usually Outlook) which is fine. Outside these environments however,
it is largely a different story ... people don't generally use mail clients
but instead use web mail such as gmail, hotmail or other social network
hybrids. For those people (generally the people I build websites for) mailto
links result in a blank window - very unprofessional and definitely not
identifying with the change of times of my target users.

My rule is, if it for internal company web pages, then they are definitely
handy. Otherwise, they don't serve the vast majority of other users.