[ale] Totally OT

[Randy Janinda]

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:40:48AM -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
> Forced to use IE for a few days, I noticed something interesting:
> If you have your "home page" set to about:blank, then open Explorer,
> and pull down the Address list in order to select a URL which you have
> visited recently, but don't click on any URL, there is some data transferred
> over the net.
> 
> Now, I'm not paranoid or anything, but just what info gets sent out, and who
> do you suppose gets that info? Hmmm? Bet someone on this list knows.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv

I can't wait to try ;). I think it would be rather interesting if this actually turned out to be something, better yet if a few individuals would be willing to "sniff" or "dump" this and then compile the results. 

--Randy