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From: [e-mail] (Neal Holtz)
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Subject: Re: Integrating WWW with mail
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 13:50:18 EDT
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Francis Heylighen writes:
> ... It
> would be interesting if I read an interesting document that I could
> directly contact the author without leaving my WWW browser.
>
> One intuitive way to implement this would be that if I select the person's
> name (or email address) I would get a dialogue in which I can compose an
> email message. ...

This would be very nice.  Along those same lines, the Lynx stuff from the
University of Kansas has the interesting concept of file "ownership".  A special
tag gives the email address of the owner of the file, and the hypertext
browsers allow you to send them mail.  This is really a subset of the idea
proposed above, but it might be useful to have that concept of ownership
without any explicit reference in the text.

> Of course, this implies that the appropriate email protocol (SMTP?) would
> be incorporated in HTTP. But that can remain hidden from the user.

Couldn't the various browsers just use the existing mail delivery mechanisms
and programs?

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