If you use a guestbook, you probably know that people leave personal messages that are of no interest to anyone but you. My students are all the time leaving messages like "When is our next test?", besides cluttering the guestbook they serve no purpose since I only check the guestbook every couple of weeks. I think this happens because the students (or users, in general) don't know how to configure their browser to send email or are using browsers on a public machine. The traditional way around this is to use mailto forms. Unfortunately, besides requiring that a SMTP server must be configured, not all browsers support this option and some of those that do, send the message as an untranslated attachment (even if you specify ENCTYPE=text/plain). The only real solution is to use a cgi, and the traditional one to use is a email cgi. As an alternate I created print.acgi . When someone leaves a private message for you it is printed out on your desktop printer. In affect it turns your printer into a fax machine. You can try it out here. If you run a Mac Server and would like to use the cgi it is available here. This uses Scriptable Text Editor if you need it you can obtain it here.
Actually it would not be difficult to change it so that when a user fills out a form at your site the completed, properly formated, form is printed out in the background on your secretaries computer. As is it will handle any form you have although the formatting won't be fancy. Pretty neat I think! Anyway give it a try and let me know what you think.
Carl