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1996-02-21 - Re: JavaScript to grab email

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From: “Richard Martin” <rmartin@aw.sgi.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 9d8046b744a8b3145bd71972ae19bbd24d41c0f4d5e94b263d3ddafdc2a8613e
Message ID: <9602201704.ZM3263@glacius.alias.com>
Reply To: <9602202009.AA09881@MARIAN.SOGS.STSCI.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1996-02-21 05:11:45 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:11:45 +0800

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From: "Richard Martin" <rmartin@aw.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:11:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: JavaScript to grab email
In-Reply-To: <9602202009.AA09881@MARIAN.SOGS.STSCI.EDU>
Message-ID: <9602201704.ZM3263@glacius.alias.com>
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On Feb 20,  3:09pm, Mike Rose wrote:
> For those who haven't read the script, the technique used is as
> follows.  A java script sends a mail message to the author of the
> script.  The identity of the sender is in the mail headers.  The
> script does not look at netscape variables or otherwise get the
> information from netscape or the environment.

Javascript is coming to annoy me more and more all the time. I can turn
off Java in Netscape, but I can't turn off Javascript, and I've already
encountered pages which use Javascript to animate status bars and so on.
My web browser should *not* be generating 90% of my usage, or if it is,
there should be a way of turning it off.

So, here's a proposal for those who (a) run high-traffic sites and (b)
are similarly annoyed with the Netscape plan.

Insert the following at the top of your top-level page.
<BODY onLoad="document.mailme.submit()">
<!-- First found at http://www.popco.com/grabtest.html -->
<form method=post name="mailme"
action="mailto:support@netscape.com?subject=javascript breaks privacy
protections">
<h3>Viewing this page has automatically sent a short piece of protest
e-mail to Netscape.</h3>
<input type=hidden name="Please let users turn " value="JAVASCRIPT OFF NOW!">
</form>
[the rest of your page here]
...
</BODY></HTML>

They *might* get the point.

<excuse>
It's *not* spamming them! Folks'll only--at most--send them about fifteen
messages a day!
</excuse>

They can use it to replace cookies, if they ever get rid of cookies.
["Alright, Jim, we've had to reboot the mail server fifteen times today,
which suggests that there's about fourteen thousand more users than
yesterday... Pity they can't talk to us, eh?"]

<malicious grin>
frodo =)

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-- 
Richard Martin
Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team]
rmartin@aw.sgi.com/g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu      http://www.io.org/~samwise
Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992

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