Gus wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Sentiono Leowinata wrote:
I wonder how they can get the e-mail address? Our finger daemon are blocked. Many un-broadcast e-mail addresses (the account never send any e-mails to anyone) are in the database. How?
It's a sad fact that many unscrupulous(sp?) writers of WWW pages use non-visilble "on load" HTML to record what the web browser thinks the email address of the person browsing the page, and, I presume sell this info to the junk email producers.
Part of the WhoWhere archives could have come from such sources. (personally my address in netscape is stop.stealing@addresses.you.CENSORED)
We go to great pains to keep from revealing your e-mail address to a web site. Several of the fixes in 2.01 were for these sorts of problems. Given a current version of Netscape Navigator, how would a spam-king steal your e-mail address from his web page? --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.