Re: Getting Email environment address

There is an HTTP field that can be used to send email addresses. A long time ago, browsers even did this. But it was quickly used by evil people to harvest those addresses for spam and other nasty purposes. So nowadays, browsers no longer send out that information.

Remember, the internet isn't a nice place anymore.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Getting Email environment address by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Nov 14, 2002 at 15:44 UTC
Remember, the internet isn't a nice place anymore. Abigail, does that mean that it used to be? /me boggles at the thought... Perhaps you are referring to the pre-internet days. DARPANET or perhaps even further back when it was ARPANET?	[reply]
(OT) The Internet used to be fun by talexb (Chancellor) on Nov 14, 2002 at 16:31 UTC
Yes, the Internet used to be a nice place. Well, that's my perspective from joining CompuServe in the late 80's and enjoying it till the mid-90's. It was a great community, we had a lot of fun sharing and discussing the news, trying out new software and occasionally :) roasting Microsoft. I can't complain -- I got my first non-student Internet E-Mail address from them. For a while I was 73067.1500@compuserve.com, before we entered the ISP of the month period of Modern History. Unfortunately CompuServe's business model started to fail in the second half of the 90's -- charging connect time by the minute (especially at the rate they were charging) made less and less sense. Then, of course, they were bought by AOL. Fun memories. :) --t. alex but my friends call me T.	[reply]