Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 05:47:36 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM ugh...
>From: "Lou S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>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
Very intesting Lou. I changed my Hotmail trash options to the maximun
settings after we had a discussion on this topic a while ago, and things
improved I started to get a LOT of spam at that point. But are you saying
that you are getting spam with [LIB] in the subject? If you set up a filter
for {LIB} in the subject line, I'd think all the list mail would go out with
the spam.
>>>>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.
^ Yeah... that was from a couple of my posts. ^
>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)
Very, very interesting Lou! I suspected this sort of thing was going on.
But you're saying it's when you have Java activated, right?
Matt
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