[Web4lib] Disabling mailto: links on webpages for public computers

[Robert Sullivan]

> Ever since I can remember, the mailto: hyperlink on webpages has been a bane to public, shared computer use. We are not going to configure our computers and server to enable proper use of these links, but because of that, very few patrons know how to configure this themselves (nor do we encourage them to try). But...in my research to try to figure out how to disable this functionality, I have come up short.
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> Has anyone tried to remove this Windows OS "feature" successfully (without resultant side-effects) on their library's public machines?

We have considered setting the default mail client to one of the major
Web-based services on the theory this would solve at least some of the
issue.

I have not pursued this because in practice it rarely comes up (which
surprises me).

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library