In article ,
Dave Hinz wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:52:22 -0400, JohnM wrote:
And when you click on his link (or answer his post) he gets another.
Then you get the spam..

How do you propose he harvests your email address from a hit on a
webserver, exactly? I've seen an awful lot of webserver logs, and never
seen an email address of the person hitting the site in there.

If your web browser has never been set up for e-mail. it
shouldn't even *know* your e-mail address.

But -- if it has, and if your browser has JavaScript enabled,
the web server (or a JavaScript served by it) can ask for the
information, and write it to a file. Probably the same could be done
with Java or Active-X if you have those enabled.

Since I use my web browser only for web browsing, *never* for
e-mail, I've never set up the e-mail part, so I don't worry about that.

But -- I haven't seen the start of this thread. It is either
too old and has expired already (over 30 days on *my* server), or it was
posted on or through news servers which I block.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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