[thelist] bah geocities.. was:netscape issue...

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

> since when did yahoo/geocities start tracking
> incoming visitors like that? Seriously lame, and I'll probably think
> twice before clicking on a geocities.com link in the future.. Looks like
> they're trapping browser version, referer(my email in this case),
> language, OS, screen resolution, and the last one java version maybe?

Geocities has an option for members to have a stats tracker set up for 
their page.  Among the statistics it allows you to track are browsers, 
referers, javascript (not java) status & version. . . . looks like it's 
been enabled, although i didn't notice it when i was there. . .

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