From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:30:59 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: More secure web browser
Message-ID: <199606180547.WAA10509@toad.com>
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>Chris> This is all I got from the anonymizer test site (URL was posted  
>Chris> recently).
>Chris> <BR> Your Internet browser is IBM-WebExplorer-DLL/v1.1b.
>Chris> <BR> You are coming from .
>Chris> Seems reasonably private. Unfortunately, it's not an option if you  
>Chris> don't use OS/2...
>I doubt it.  You're only `private' wrt hostname because io-online's
>reverse DNS tables appear (very) broken.  This has nothing to do with
>the browser or the O/S.

I wasn't referring to that. I was referring to the fact that ALL it had
was WebExplorer and the hostname. Some of the other browsers release a
LOT of extra information...
BTW, no OS-supremacy was intendeded - merely a realization of the fact
that WebExplorer is an OS/2 only product.