Re: --==CELERON 466Mhz ONLY $1.95 -- it's real, it's work===---

From: Kenneth C Stahl <BlueSax_at_Unforgettable.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:07:48 -0400
Message-ID: <380340B4.75AC61C4@Unforgettable.com>

It has been going on for a couple years now. Typically it doesn't happen in technical forums, but in recreational newsgroups it happens all the time. In some cases the evil-doer even manipulates the header of the message so that it will be guaranteed to be the first message that appears when you open the newsgroup and that means that if you open that newsgroup it will automatically select that message and launch the browser window.

You can turn javascript off and it will stop this type of thing - but it will block javascript everywhere in your browser, not just in the newsreader. What IE and Netscape need to do is to allow javascript to only be run from browser windows.

By the way - it is also guaranteed that the reply address on any message that uses this technique will not be a valid address for the originator of the message. After all, they don't want their mailbox to get filled up with people calling them a #@#$!@#$ !@#$!#$!# for posting such messages on newsgroups. If the individual happens to be careless you might be able to figure out who is their isp and send a message to their abuse desk, but chances are it will be impossible to trace the message - that is how spammers continue to operate.

Brendan Reynolds wrote:
>
> Seems to be a new, and unfortunately very popular marketing technique -
> annoy the heck out of your (ex) potential customers!
>
> --
> Brendan Reynolds
> brenreyn_at_indigo.ie
>
> Pete B <barnesp_at_datatek.com> wrote in message
> news:s06a68fhh1s64_at_news.supernews.com...
> > Yikes, mine too.
> >
> > What gets me is why the poster would think I would be interested in his
> > message at all after a stunt like that. That web page was not even open
> > long enough for me to read it, I was shutting it down before it ever got
> > started.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Pete B
> >
> >
> > Arvin Meyer wrote in message <7tv5eo$rka$1_at_nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>...
> > >Allright, we know this is spam. But how did this joker force my browser
> to
> > >open at the page below?
> > >---
> > >Arvin Meyer
> > >
> > >ddd wrote in message <3802ECCD.A99DBE65_at_mj.dk>...
> > >>
> > >> http://www.gamma-ent.com/pc/index.html
>

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Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 09:07:48 CDT