Webpages automatically extracting default mail address

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My Norton Internet Security 2004 'protect personal information' facility is
alerting to me to certain websites trying to automatically retrieve and send
back to the server my email address. A very clever trick! How's it done?

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earlier message they were replying to then these newsgroups would be a hell
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In article <40fc25d8$1_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>,
mindyourownbusiness@123.com says...
> My Norton Internet Security 2004 'protect personal information' facility is
> alerting to me to certain websites trying to automatically retrieve and send
> back to the server my email address. A very clever trick! How's it done?

Actually, it's looking at your host name and login name - I would bet
it's not looking for your "email" address.

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"ITMA" <mindyourownbusiness@123.com> wrote in
news:40fc25d8$1_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com:

> My Norton Internet Security 2004 'protect personal information'
> facility is alerting to me to certain websites trying to automatically
> retrieve and send back to the server my email address. A very clever
> trick! How's it done?
>

It's being done through the browser using *cookies*. Cookies are files
kept on your machine and server side scripting such as ASP or JAVA will
gather information about you and store them in *cookies* on your machine
and retrieve this information when you visit a site. Also, server side
scripting can also keep cookies on the server about you and will know
when you access a sight by interrogating the browser to obtain
information to access the cookies that have been kept on the Web server
about you.

There is no magic going on and it's just Web programming that's all
nothing special. ;-)

Duane

 

[Barry]

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"ITMA" <mindyourownbusiness@123.com> wrote in message
news:40fc25d8$1_2@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> My Norton Internet Security 2004 'protect personal information' facility
is
> alerting to me to certain websites trying to automatically retrieve and
send
> back to the server my email address. A very clever trick! How's it done?
>
> --
> "If everyone followed my method of deleting all but the snippet of an
> earlier message they were replying to then these newsgroups would be a
hell
> of a lot easier to read"
>
>

at a guess, you've signed up to these sites, and used your email address as
a logon name. You've clicked "remember me" or something similar when logging
on. A cookie was stored on your computer, everytime the website reads this
info, norton alerts you.

Or are these totally random sites you've never been to before?