> > > > > There are a bunch of ways to collect emails. In some cases, just > > visiting a site can expose your email address. > > Pardon my flame (or my ignorance?)... but how would "just visiting a > site" expose your email address?? > In HTML you can imbed images. The imbedded image path can be a URL. If you make the URL start with FTP: instead of HTTP: the browser will use anonymous FTP to load the file. The default in some browsers for the FTP: URL's is to use userid anonymous and password equal to your email address. The site just collects the passwords which are email addresses. Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Lucent Technologies, Phoenix Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx / styma@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 Company: http://www.lucent.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma
