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Re: Anonymous Web Browsing




   I think the simplest solution is to not use Netscape for mail. Don't 
put your address in there in the first place.

On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:

> >Note to Netscape people: Is it possible to have an option that will *always*
> >pop up a mail window and request confirmation before mail is sent out? Or
> >disable mailto altogether? It would be a lot easier than binary editing 
> >the executable to remove all the mailto strings...
> 
> At least in the Windows version, you can set the SMTP server you
> want to use for your outgoing mail.  So you could do a proxy email server
> that listens for SMTP and pops up confirmations for outgoing traffic.
> For the moment, you'd probably have to write your own, but the new
> Winsock Remailer probably has the code you need to do most of the work,
> and you'd only have to add some GUI buttons and whistles.
> 
> #--
> #				Thanks;  Bill
> # Bill Stewart, [email protected] / [email protected] +1-415-442-2215
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