Re: Escrow Account Avoids Fraud in Getting Marketing Results

From: John Gaskill <gm_at_info-central-usa.com>
Date: Fri 01 Sep 2000 12:46:50 +0000

BROOKE SAUNDERS <brookesaunders_at_hotmail.com> WROTE:
> My belief is that it can be used for advertising. For
> example, I have an affiliate site
> www.zoomplus2001.com, and all I need to do is to drive
> traffic there, I don't have to deliver product, etc.,
> it is completely automated.

TO WHICH ALAN FERGUSON <ajf_at_crgalleries.com> REPLIED:
> I'm sure some readers on this list, including myself,
> visited the above site mentioned in this post from
> Brooke. I am also fairly sure that Brooke hoped that
> would happen with this obvious attempt to make money,
> also admitted to in the post. What Brooke didn't say
> was that once you entered the web site California, you
> could never leave, automated indeed.
>
> What bothered me immensely was the trick of making my
> history disappear (yikes!). It is a tactic that I run
> across more frequently every day, and friends and
> colleagues seem to be mentioning this "trick" more in
> our conversations...

Disabling these annoying tricks used by
web programmers is easy with Netscape,
but does not seem possible with MSIE.

Open Netscape and click as follows:

Options >Security Options> General

Select Disable Java and Disable Javascript to
prevent your browser from being hijacked or
having the History object cleared by embedded
or downloaded scripts.

If scripts are written in other programming
languages that are read by your browser
you may still have the same problems, just
less of them.

BTW, disabling Java and Javascript may
result in diminished functionality for many
web sites.

Regards,

John Gaskill
gm_at_info-central-usa.com





Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 07:46:50 CDT