Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:52:02 -0700 From: "Renita Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM
Matt, I think you misunderstand. He has his own computer but when he's home (never alone), he uses his own, but his connection to the internet is the main home phone, so he must ask first, and I go over his downloads and cookies on a regular basis. Once I asked him about looking for game sites on the web (when he was 8) and he said he didn't do it anymore 'cause he kept getting dirty pictures. He would tell me, he's not gotten to that age yet. This stuff was within a week, and I'd been on the computer almost constantly, using Word for some work I was doing. So if he wanted to, he could use his own, he's not THAT naive. This definitely comes from something I've put my name to (and I RARELY use my first name) recently. R ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 05:33:05 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] SPAM > > >Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:47:32 -0700 > >From: "Renita Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I think Digby's onto something. I have, in the last few days, been getting > >TONS of spam (including porn addressed to ME personally, not good since my > >10 year old son also uses my connection on occasion), and nothing else has > >changed except my addition of the Libretto Digest and my account with > >Ebay....hmmmm...R > > Heh... them little tykes do get into mischief on the net these days. Plus > 10 these days ain't 10 from back in the Coolidge years of... uh... the > charleston, jazz, and speakeasies. Hmmm... maybe it was. Have you thought > about NetNanny? > > I just did a little test on that mailto tag in my HTML files. With all new > installations of IE w/latest SP, Netscape 4.79, Win98, and Eudora Pro, now > I'm getting what looks like a javascript popup window in IE when I run the > mailto file that says: > > > --------------------------------------------- > > "This form is being submitted using e-mail. > Submitting this form will reveal your email > address to the recipient, and will send the > form data without encypting it for privacy. > > You may continue or cancel this submission." > > OK Cancel > > --------------------------------------------- > > > When I click OK, Eudora Pro pops up. Something that Eudora Light never did > with METHOD="POST" in the <FORM> tag. Eudora displays another good warning: > > > --------------------------------------------- > > "A program is trying to send a message using > MAPI without first letting you see the > contents of the message. This is a tecnique > that some virus writers have employed in > order to spread the virus. Would you like to > see the message before it is sent (highly > recommended)." > > . [ ] Don't remind me again > > . Yes No > > --------------------------------------------- > > What you then see is a email form with the mailto address in the To: field, > and a postdata.att file attachment which is created from the form data. > > However, I'm sure there are many systems out there with older software where > these warnings have either been turned off, or didn't exist. And I'm > guessing that the IE message above can be disabled. And if I clicked "Don't > remind me again" in Eudora Pro, I wonder if Eudora Pro will pop up at all. > Eudora Light sure never did. I'm only now learning how I was able to post > my own email address to my website by filling a form and submitting it, and > never knew it was sent via Eudora. > > I'm still betting that a lot of email addresses are harvested by websites > set up to run mailto like this. > > Who suggested turn off Java? I've forgotten that I used to do that. > Unfortunately mailto is pure HTML. > > Matt > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
