From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 03:52:26 +0800
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: doubleclick monitoring web browsing habits
Message-ID: <199606151550.LAA02507@unix.asb.com>
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On 14 Jun 96 at 14:26, Hal wrote:

> 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.

I visited there from Netscape. Didn't give my user name but 
apparently said "You are affiliated with ASB Internet, Inc. ..." and 
then displayed a bunch of advertising info by ISP puts out.

An amusing thought: fill the personal info fields with business 
advertisements.  Perhaps people who surf the web regularly can sell 
advertising space.

(insert smiling emoticon 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.

Have you tried mailing yourself by putting something else in there? I 
remember trying that and seeing from the headers that I sent it (the 
usual "Received by ..." username -> machine paths.) Of course that 
was on a University's computer system, so they may have patched the 
sources.

Rob

 
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