Fooling around, I came up with this external method, which seems to work perfectly: def rewrite(self): return self.REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect('mailto:Bob@Whoopee.com?Subject=A test of unspam') It seems to do the right thing: pop up email on my machine. And you just put a URL on your page, no javascript needed. I mean, is this cool or what? The question is, would a spider -- which is visiting every url -- know what to do with what comes back from this particular URL? Hmm. I wonder if I can pass the subject string in to the external method somehow. Most current information can be found at: http://www.mindview.net/Etc/notes.html =================== Bruce Eckel http://www.BruceEckel.com Contains free electronic books: "Thinking in Java 2e" & "Thinking in C++ 2e" Please subscribe to my free newsletter -- just send any email to: join-eckel-oo-programming@earth.lyris.net My schedule can be found at: http://www.mindview.net/Calendar ===================