On 14 Jun 96 at 14:26, Hal wrote:

When I run lynx (2.3.7 beta) to <URL: http://www.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/snoop.pl >, it says:

Here's a sampling of the kind of information that a site can collect on you (please wait a moment):

Your computer is a Unix box. Your Internet browser is Lynx. You are coming from jobe.shell.portal.com. You just visited the Anonymizer Home Page.

No user name here.

I visited there from Netscape. Didn't give my user name but apparently said "You are affiliated with ASB Internet, Inc. ..." and then displayed a bunch of advertising info by ISP puts out. An amusing thought: fill the personal info fields with business advertisements. Perhaps people who surf the web regularly can sell advertising space. (insert smiling emoticon here)

Also, when I follow a mailto: link it asks me to input the email address I want the mail to be from! So I don't think it is using local user name information, although certainly that is potentially available to it.

Have you tried mailing yourself by putting something else in there? I remember trying that and seeing from the headers that I sent it (the usual "Received by ..." username -> machine paths.) Of course that was on a University's computer system, so they may have patched the sources. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.