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Re: How to pick up email addresses from a feedback form??
Thomas Porter <[email protected]> writes:
> Greetings guru's.
Om shanti.
> I have a technical question:
>
> I am using a browser(Netscape 2.0.2 Win 3.1) to access a feedback form at
> www.aaa.com.
You should definitely get a newer version of Windows (or Linux) and a
newer version of Netscape, together with a few clues.
> I fill in my information and hit the submit button.
>
> I see the message "connecting to xxx.bbb.com" flash up on the status line
> before getting a 'done' message.
Do a 'view source' in your ancient netscape, and you'll probably see that
the submit button lives in a form whose action="http://xxx.bbb.com/some.cgi".
> xxx.bbb.com is _not_ a web hosting service for www.aaa.com. I do a 'whois'
> on www.aaa.com and contact the tech admin who can duplicate this and is
> very concerned that information from his forms may be routed to xxx.bbb.com.
Is it "his" form? On a big site, the domain contact is likely to have no
clue about _all_ the web pages on their site.
...
> Is there another way to do this? Could a third-party spammer, for example,
> capture email addresses posted to such a form?
That's a keeper.
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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