Ohhh-God, not again...

Can anyone remember the Prodigy rumor? How IBM was snooping around your hard disk, and it turned out to be nothing but a swapfile. Does "Good times" ring a bell? And don't get me started on MicroSoft Network rumors...

1) 90% of the FTP sites I use mention that they log xfers.

2) My .newsrc file can tell anyone that I read alt.hackers and alt.2600

3) My address book shows who I send mail often enough to warrent me putting in a nickname.

4) My sent-mail folder shows who I sent mail to in the past year.

5) My bookmark file shows that I read the NYC-Speedtraps page one or two time a week.

Zterm and Anarchie both default to logging transfers. AOL on the Mac has a button on the download manager that lets you view a list of items you have downloaded. It's everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more +1 415 390 9732 | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw@iglou.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995