There are many more uses of the mailto: URL.
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From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Just a thought, couldn't the broswer allow selection of <ADDRESS>...</ADDRESS>
fields and pop up a mail dialog with that data in the To: field? Or something
along those lines?
Maybe I don't fully understand the problem you are trying to solve
(please educate me if that is the case).
--sanders
Omit needless features -- paraphrasing William Strunk Jr.