From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 02:51:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: JavaScript to grab email
Message-ID: <199602201758.JAA21544@netcom7.netcom.com>
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At  4:33 PM 2/20/96 +0200, Jyri Kaljundi wrote:
>Another annoying feature in JavaScript and Netscape. Have a look at 
><http://www.popco.com/grabtest.html>
>
>The page uses JavaScript to steal your e-mail address and sends a test 
>e-mail message to the address it grabbed. It works with Netscape, which 
>is probably only browser supporting JavaScript.
>
>Probably there will soon be thousands of pages which include this code, 
>and people using Netscape 2.0 will be spammed with commercial messages. 
>So just put some false e-mail address in your Netscape browser to disable 
>this feature.
>...

Anyone know the email address of an email reflector that automatically
sends everything sent (not bounced) to it back to the sender.  Or I suppose
I could use invalid names/domain names.


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