" then "Message
Sent". I looked through the site's HTML code and there was a little piece of
JavaScript which appeared to send an e-mail message to the site's owner with
no intervention from me. This service is provided by
http://www.siteguest.com/, who describe it as "Caller ID for your web site".
Sure enough, in the next few days I started to get a number of e-mails from
this realtor promising the best deals on houses. I'd prefer to choose who
gets my e-mail address, and the behaviour of this particular individual has
pretty much guaranteed no business from me.
The risk? The usual JavaScript and security warnings should be on, and that
combining web and mail functions in one program is not always a good idea.
Stewart C. Russell Senior Analyst, Dictionary Division, HarperCollins
Publishers, Glasgow, Scotland stewart@ref.collins.co.uk ["Stewart C. Russell" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 24]
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