Re: WOMAN

Randy Gardner wrote:
> Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> > : /_/  |_|_____/_/     http://www.angelfire.com/biz/etco
> > Interesting.. I kind of liked the file:///C:/ trick, though you're
> > maybe being a bit mean on the newbies. Doesn't tell much about you,
> > though, just a lot of eye candy. Or maybe I didn't look deep enough,
> > it's quite a mess with Lynx, y'know. Dejanews was much more helpful.
> 
> Talk about a stupid trick......                    8^)
> 
> (I've done a little work on browser bugs, and only in a couple of
> very-quickly replaced versions of IE could that info be sent to the
> owner of the web page. A simaler bug was in netscape, but it was
> almost instantly fixed.)
> 
> Problems:
> Not all OS'es use drive letters in that fasion.
> Only idiots don't check their location every once in a while.
> Anybody with 1/16 of a brain and is a PC user will know what C: is.
> Anybody with 1/8 of a brain upgrades their browser, especially when
>      the bug was in every paper and news show.
> Who belives anybody these days?
> 
> However, I must admit I know of at least one person (not me) who fell
> for one of those links.....  (Guess what?  Win95 PC user with IE....)
> 
> Guess the average person might fall for it.........
> 

Oh, the trick isn't to make the author of the page see what he has on
his hard drive, the trick is to make the reader _think_ that the author
can see what the reader has on his hard drive. Since "file URLs" are
very useful I would concider a browser that didn't have them to be
seriously flawed and as long as those exist tricks like that will be
possible (but of course any such "file URL" that uses something with
"C:" will only look silly to me and cause an error message since my hard
drive isn't called "C:").

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