Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:21:01 -0400 From: "Lou S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM ugh...
FYI, I was just browsing the Net on an unrelated search and stumbled unto the below links. Using Java can give away your email address as can reading spam that comes in, in some cases. One way to cut down on spam would be to have the Server for the Libretto List to strip our email addresses out of our posts. The only way I get spam these days is from posting here. But w/Hotmail filters I see only 6 of the 100+ spams my trash can gets a week. If I filter based on the [LIB] signature in the Subject line, I get zero, nada, none, not even one! spam. - Lou S >>>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 >>I can only guess that Windows and/or MSIE and maybe Netscape, manage >>to find email addresses configured into mail clients, and uses them in >>response >>to the mailto HTML tags on websites. Now, with SiteGuest, you can capture the names and email addresses of visitors to your web sites! http://realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtapages/19980911_callerID.htm This is one site that will explain how some folks can grab your email address. You can also browse through the posts linked to this search: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=NDwr6.829%24on6.567349%40typhoon2.ba-dsg.net&rnum=18&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522edward%2Bmendelson%2522%26hl%3Den%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN "If you use Norton Internet Security or AtGuard, one way to block these things is to setup the adblocker to block anything with the string www.atlantistech.com -- that blocks the script that makes your brwoser send an e-mail." (a post from the above search) _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
