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

Daniel J. Cody djc at starkmedia.com
Fri Apr 20 14:19:04 CDT 2001


Hey Shane - 

Sorry to hear about your problem.. Can't say I know enough about HTML to
help ya :(

While I was checking the source code for your pages, I noticed this on
the bottom:

<IMG BORDER=0
SRC="http://visit.geocities.com/visit.gif?&r=IMAP%3A//mail.starkmedia.com%3Ffetch%3EUID%3E/thelist%3E7932&b=Netscape%204.77%20%5Ben%5D%20%28Win98%3B%20U%29&s=1280x1024&o=Win32&c=32&j=true&v=1.2">

Which caught my eye because of the referenece to my mailserver. Just a
general question, but 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?

anyways..

.djc.

"M. Shane DeVault" wrote:
> 
> See...this is why I hate netscape...
> http://www.geocities.com/shanedevault/index.html
> The code right there is EXACTLY THE SAME as the code on the following
> page:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/shanedevault/bio.html




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