Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:59:42 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM ugh...
>Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 20:47:09 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I'm still wondering if my suspicions are correct, and that every time >>someone fills in web form and submits it to the website, that his ISP >>email address is passed along with the info he's entered into the form. >>Does anyone know if one's dial-up account's email address is what is used >>to send web forms? > >Heh well it can't possibly happen on my computer ... I've never even >ENTERED my ISP email address into it except in a Telnet window ;-) > >- Raymond I don't quite understand how MY email address gets from my Lib's W98 installation to the website I'm filling in a form for. I've only entered my email address into Eudora. But I'm wondering if Windows, or MSIE which is part of the OS, is able to grab my email address from Eudora. I know that a few years back, I used to post forms from my own website. The forms used the HTML mailto tags to send the forms to my ISP email address. The forms I submitted to myself came through with my email address listed clearly as the address the form was posted from. I also found that when people filled in a form on my website, they would frequently fill in the box for their email address. Sometimes that data matched the address the form was posted from, and sometimes it didn�t. The latter I would later find out was because they had been using a friend�s, library, business, or school computer to submit the form. There must be enough people on the list writing HTML and server scripts who know whether or not email addresses can be harvested like this. Could it be how I have W98 set up on my L70? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
