Hi Conrad,
Just a guess: did you configure Netscape as a mailer? Then it would of course know your e-mail address. I can't think of any other way for a browser to come up with an e-mail address that has a good chance of being the correct one.
Yes, but if I do not send an email from netscape, the site should not be capable of seeing my configuration in my Netscape.ini file?! If it can do that, there is much more to worry about. It must be something else. Otherwise instead of stating that my email address is caal_p3.telepac.pt, it should be capable of saying what my 'real' email address is. I have a feeling it is some type of WHOIS service. Anybody else any ideas? patrick ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
Yes, but if I do not send an email from netscape, the site should not be capable of seeing my configuration in my Netscape.ini file?! If it can do that, there is much more to worry about.
Indeed. But there is another possibility: Netscape could transmit the e-mail address from its configuration with every HTTP request. Not that this is a much more attractive alternative...
It must be something else. Otherwise instead of stating that my email address is caal_p3.telepac.pt, it should be capable of saying what my 'real' email address is. I have a feeling it is some type of WHOIS service.
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Dear all, I don't think there is much to worry about for the moment on the privacy problem. A lot of the information that the "anonymizer" site get is from simply doing a : "finger @MachineName" "finger UserName@MachineName" If you use a proxy as I do, the "anonymizer" machine is completely fooled into thinking you are someone else (and that's not much better!). Denis. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Denis M. Bayada e-mail: denis@mi.leeds.ac.uk ICAMS voice: (44) (0)113 233 65 95 School of Chemistry fax: (44) (0)113 233 65 63 University of Leeds http://chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/denis/ Leeds LS2 9JT ENGLAND ... but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me. Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work. It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
Presumably if the software can record all of your usage of Web it can then check if on ANY occasion you used your e-mail from your machine. Hence it can itentify your address even if on the current session you have not used it. Gerry Moss ___________________________________________________________________ Dr GP Moss Telephone: +44 171 775 3262 Department of Chemistry Queen Mary & Westfield College Facsimile: +44 181 981 8745 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, United Kingdom E-mail: g.p.moss@qmw.ac.uk World Wide Web server: http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugca000/chemistry.html IUPAC data base http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugca000/iupac.html ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
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Denis M. Bayada
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G.P.Moss
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hinsenkļ¼ ERE.UMontreal.CA
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Patrick van der Valk