[ale] Totally OT

[reeves at earthling.net (J. Reeves Hall)]

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.

Perhaps it's just checking whether the cache has expired.

-Reeves

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