Jason Levine
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| Re: Well... Actually, I've been on the Internet since about 1993. I was there before the first Mozilla browser was released when Gopher was the hottest thing around. I've seen quite a lot of the development of things online. Spam was minimal back then because simply there were very few people online then. As the Internet became more popular and more and more people went online, the spammers found they could make money sending more and more spam e-mails. This has nothing to do with IE, however.
VBScript doesn't let you find out a person's e-mail address. Spammers find that out by various methods (e.g. spiders that cruise the web in search of e-mail addresses or generating possible e-mail addresses by using common names and service providers). None of these methods involves VBScript, JavaScript, or cookies. Bill Gates isn't to blame for the current level of spam. Spammers and the people who purchase from spam are to blame.
Internet Explorer has it's share of problems (some might say more than it's share). For the longest time, it's ActiveX default settings left users vulnerable to spyware infections. It's CSS support is ancient by Internet standards. It doesn't support recent innovations such as tabbed browsing natively. But spam e-mails aren't something that you can pin on Internet Explorer.
Oh, and just a question. What do you mean by the following statement?
said by linicx  :And the same experts warned about rewriting IE in VBS citing the ease of finding and/or writing poison scripts and other potential problems it would cause.. Is it just your phrasing or are you actually suggesting that Internet Explorer is itself written in VBScript? If it's the latter then you're sadly mistaken.
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