Interesting. I'm behind on stuff, having come back recently from two weeks at Burning Man and in SF, and organizing my patent expiration party. I'm only skimming threads right now. --Declan On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:44:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Previously I whined that USA.net was changing the URLs > in received email to proxy through their server, meaning > they had logs of all URLs you visited when clicking on > hyperlinks while reading your personal email. > > That this violates their own privacy policy. > > For some reason Declan failed to report it. ;-) > Analog film chemicals must be affecting his judgement. > > New note: if you bookmark the URL in the personal email someone > sent you, it bookmarks it at the USA.net address. > > ---- > > Here is the resulting URL in the new window USA.net opens > when you click on an URL in your email: > > http://www.netaddress.com/tpl/Info/Popup?hidden___url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F > > I just tried scooping it and using it directly, trying amazon here. > > It worked. > > Anyone have direct access to their own server logs? > What cookies/referrals/misc is logged on the receiving system? > > Continue clicking, and it's still via USA.net. > > It looks like a free "anonymizer" to me. >
