From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:11:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: doubleclick monitoring web browsing habits
Message-ID: <199606142126.OAA11951@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
> Lynx running under Unix can find out who you are on the system by 
> checking your user id and the hostname.

When I run lynx (2.3.7 beta) to <URL:
http://www.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/snoop.pl >, it says:

   Here's a sampling of the kind of information that a site can collect
   on you (please wait a moment):
 
 
     Your computer is a Unix box.
     Your Internet browser is Lynx.
     You are coming from jobe.shell.portal.com.
     You just visited the Anonymizer Home Page.

No user name here.

Also, when I follow a mailto: link it asks me to input the email address
I want the mail to be from!  So I don't think it is using local user name
information, although certainly that is potentially available to it.

Hal