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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: THOUGHS ON FISHMAN
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 95 17:53:44 -0700
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frank@w3-design.com (Frank San Filippo)

Me:
>     When you log onto a web site and download material, they
>     capture your internet address??
>
>     Is this true?
   
Frank:
>Generally: sorta.
      
    I've had a bunch of "answers" to this question but not a 
    single one that says yes or no.  It's not much help for a 
    unix-illiterate like me.

>They can easily tell what computer someone is coming in from. If you have
>a static IP address on your surfing machine (which most folks who surf
>from home don't) then they know. If you log in to a ppp service which
>assigns IP addresses dynamically (meaning you have a different IP address
>every time you dial in, which most do) then they prolly can't trace you
>(unless your ISP keeps records of who got which IP address when, and turns
>that over....) Slip connections I dunno about. If you're on a multiuser
>machine which provides user-authentication when asked, and they have their
>web/ftp server configured to ask for and track such info (a non-trivial
>task) then they gotcha. Lastly, if you actually include personal info in
>your browser's preferences, and they have a program set up to snatch
>http-environment variables from all requesting browsers, then they may
>getcha there, too.
>
>There may be other ways too, but that's all I know off the top of my head.
>
>IANASysAdmin (Oh wait, actually, I am....)
>F.

    Let me phrase it thus:

    I have an account at Primenet.  I use Netscape.  When I
    access someone's home page, is my primenet address
    <inForm@primenet.com> automatically captured or can it be
    captured?

    If I download something from the web site, is my address
    captured, can it be?

    Yes or effing-no?  (exsqueeze the pro-phan-nutty)

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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"