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1996-02-20 - JavaScript to grab email

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From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@digit.ee>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 7335551541a6d7ff81f35b63d5fac2e29bb96f01f5aacb6c522f0efe9d546406
Message ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960220162211.12740A-100000@jaramillo.digit.ee>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-20 16:11:47 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:11:47 +0800

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From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk@digit.ee>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:11:47 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: JavaScript to grab email
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960220162211.12740A-100000@jaramillo.digit.ee>
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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.

The script was developed and announced by Glenn Fleishman, moderator of 
the Internet Marketing mailing list. Thanks for letting people know.

Jüri Kaljundi
jk@digit.ee
Digiturg http://www.digit.ee/

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