Reader feedback may be solicited using the $$FEEDBACK$$ substitution directive.

This presents the reader with a dialog containing a text field allowing a return email address to be specified and a text field for feedback composition. The feedback is delivered using email.

Parameter	Description
email=	Destination email address(es) for the feedback. Any address acceptable to the site VMS system can be used.
from=	Default string in the from email address field.
goto=	Section (page) to go to after a successful send.
label1=	Text to appear to the right of the email address field.
origin=	Sets the origin address ("From:") for the email message.
submit=	Text (or image) for the send (submit) button.
16x80	If the parameter begins with a digit it is used to specify the number of rows and the number of columns in the comment text area.  Rows and columns are separated by a non-digit (non-dollar) character.

The example Feedback section in this documentation uses

$$HIDE$$$$FEEDBACK$email=mark.daniel@wasd.vsm.com.au$goto=/vdub/Feedback/Thank_you$$

to provide the essentials of the feedback dialog.

The Feedback and the subordinate Thank you sections both use a leading $$HIDE$$ to reduce visiblity.

Email Abuse

Though a difficult issue to address there are some configurable mechanisms available that attempt to minimise the possibility of feedback abuse.