Greetings, I guess the situation is worse than I expected. I visited the 'anonymizer' site, just to look around. One of the files told me that I was using Netscape, Windows 3.1 (although it is really 3.11), and that my address was caal_p3.telepac.pt. The later ofcourse does not resemble my email address, so I thought I was safe. Wrong! I got an email from 'anonymizer' to my real email address. Not only did I find this scary, but I want to know how is this possible? Has this always been possible, or is this a new thing? Anybody any ideas? Regards Patrick +----------------------------+ | BetaCyte | | | | Complete Internet Service | | for the Chemical Community | | 0-------------------------------0 +--------------| Visit our Virtual Office | | where the coffee is still hot | | | | http://www.betacyte.pair.com | 0-------------------------------0 ----- 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)
Wrong! I got an email from 'anonymizer' to my real email address. Not only did I find this scary, but I want to know how is this possible? Has this always been possible, or is this a new thing?
Anybody any ideas?
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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsenk@ere.umontreal.ca Departement de chimie | Tel.: +1-514-343-6111 ext. 3953 Universite de Montreal | Fax: +1-514-343-7586 C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-Ville | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/Nederlands/ Montreal (QC) H3C 3J7 | Francais (phase experimentale) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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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