At 06:35 AM 1/14/99 -0800, Stuart wrote: >You can get free email accounts all over the place now of course, which is >one solution to this. And I can see where spam might be a problem, although >to date, I've really never had much of problem. Once in a while something >comes through. And since I'm not at all cautious about leaving my email >address around the planet, I don't understand why I don't get more, while >Mark Wyatt is apparently on every porn mailer in the U.S. and Denmark. The key to receiving spam, it seems, is to post to newsgroups with an unmunged e-mail address. I inadvertently did that a few weeks ago and now my spam quotient is up from once or twice a week to once or twice a day. But as I understand it, the spam-bots have also been scanning web sites for valid e-mail addresses... so I, too, don't want my e-mail address available on a web site where anyone can get ahold of it. Also, sometimes when you visit a web site they're using tools that can find your address and other information about you, and later may send you unsolicited e-mail... If you want to see what web sites are able to find out about you when you visit, click here: http://www.consumer.net/analyze/ See also http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy This anonymous web surfing site tells some of the same information: http://www.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/snoop.pl And for another revealing look (about security)... http://www.coriolis.com/webpsychos/wpfiles.htm Lianne
