At 05:16 PM 1/13/96 -0800, Jeff Weinstein wrote:

I've removed the code that uses the e-mail address as the FTP password for anonymous FTPs. You can still enter it by hand by using a URL of this form 'ftp://anonymous@ftp.netscape.com'.

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The fix for this will be in the next [netscape] beta, and the final version of 2.0.

Thank you. This excellent new feature is more important than you know. The FTC is threatening to regulate the net, and is using as its excuse the claim that advertisers will or are threatening to send junk email to be people who browse their web pages. To protect the internet from this terrible threat they wish to regulate every computer that puts up a web page in a similar fashion to their regulation of TV and radio. This simple technical fix deprives the FTC of that excuse. It will have to concoct a new excuse. Unless someone deliberately configures their netscape browser to provide the information, no one can send them junk mail.

Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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