Re: Question on FTP Email address settings
Michael Lefevre <[email protected]>
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In article <[email protected]>, GhostMouse wrote: > > "Ben Bucksch" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> GhostMouse wrote: >> >My question is: Will putting in something like [email protected] (or > any fake email address) actually stop the distribution of my real email addy > and will it stop the spam I get from all these websites that are picking up > my information from the browser as I surf? >> > >> You email address is not being sent to FTP servers unless you >> specifically enable that option and enter you address there. I thought >> we (in fact, I) removed that option exactly because it causes this kind >> of confusion. > > Wow, I just downloaded this version (1.4) last night from mozilla.org! It's > fairly current, although it did say when I installed it that it was more > than a few weeks old. It's the latest stable release - it is more than 4 weeks old, but that message says "if". If you want to be of more help with testing Mozilla, then using a nightly would be more help. If you actually want a browser to use, then 1.4 is fine. > So I should just uncheck that option, right? Yes. Unchecking the option means that Mozilla will send "[email protected]" as the email address (example.com is reserved and guaranteed never to be registered to anyone - www.example.com actually has a server behind it which explains now) -- Michael