Did it occur to anyone that what may have been said was that "When you
connect on one of our sites a message abot who what where when and HOW" is
collected? Sounds like logging to me. Netscape has the ability (i understand)
to report the type of and rev number for the browser.
>> Nov 7 Scott Deshaies was purported to have written:
>> The first was the CEO of Netscape saying something to the effect that
>> "..we know how many people are using our browsers because every time
>> you access a site, a message is set to one of our servers telling us
>> what version you have, if it's a trial beta or registered, etc".
>> I havent had a chance to run a packet trace on it yet, but does anyone
>> know if this is true?
>
>I have run packet traces on my connections and haven't yet seen any of
>these "messages", but I certinaly may have missed it! A packet is not
>sent at the start of every connection. It may be sent at some random
>time after the initiation of a connection or only once per day.
>
> geoff
>
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