I suspect you meant "mailto:" in the abstract, rather than using an actual "mailto:joe@foo.bar.com" type of URL.
If you put your user's actual email addresses in the text of any web page, they will hate you, as that is one of the main ways spammers harvest email addresses. I had someone put a "role" email address (like "info@foo.bar.com") on a wiki page that way, and within a week, we had to abandon that address as it had become overwhelmed with spam.
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