Technical note:    10006
  Created:           05/11/95 by Trip
  Last modified:     07/10/95 by Brian
  Product:           Netscape Navigator

Versions 1.0 and later of the Netscape Navigator do not let web (HTTP)
servers see your email address.  Pre-release versions of the Netscape
Navigator before 1.0 used to let servers see your email address, but
then we discovered an admin who was using this to send junk mail to
the people who were visiting his site, so we removed this feature.

Web servers are able to see that you are connecting to them with a
copy of the Netscape Navigator (because it identifies itself as such),
and they are usually able to see what computer system you're
connecting from, but no other information about yourself is given.

Note that there is a field in the "Mail and News" section of the
Netscape Preferences where you can give your email address, but this
is used only to put your return address on outgoing email you send
from the Navigator, and it is not given to any web servers you visit.