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- From: jabar@aa.net (Jerry Barlow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: HotJava Question
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:36:36 GMT
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- I read that Java has an optional utility which snatches the address of
- anyone browsing a java website, so that the website can compile an
- e-mailing list of potential customers for whatever it is they are selling.
-
- This sounds intrusive. The idea of sifting through garbage e-mail
- every day, and all the irritation that would cause, makes me wonder what
- were they thinking when they came up with that idea. At least in the
- real world one can window shop, or walk through a store anonymously, and
- not worry about having their ID pickpocketed by an employee of the
- store.
-