-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Steinman <jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Your favourite camera
>>From: "gary edwards" <maitani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>... maybe I'm cynical, but what a great way to build a big mailing list
>>for photographic spam at little or no cost.
>
>The only information a web site gets from you is your IP address. It does
>not get a mailbox name. If you're coming in through a dial-up line or
>through a firewall, you probably give it a dynamically generated IP
>address, for even more anonymimity.
>
>Anything else they get is something you gave them -- perhaps unwittingly.
>For example, if you have your browser configured to send your email address
>as the password for anonymous ftp (a common practice, born in friendlier
>times before spam), they can suck your address out by doing a re-direct to
>a dummy ftp protocol URL.
I have set Netscape to warn me every time a server wants to set a cookie
after which I reject all requests to set cookies. This favourite camera list
must ask at least six times to set cookies after which it gives up and the
web site opens.
jh
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