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From: Jim Ley
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:48
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:48
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:45:25 +0000, Jack Howard <jhoward@blackhole.firstnet.co.uk> wrote: >Well, that's what they claim to be. Many browsers (but not, IIRC IE) >allow the user to set the ID string to anything they like - IIRC Google >has an entry for these somewhere, including one of this group's regular >contributor's "None of your damn business" or similar.. :-) Adding to IE is trivial, (so you could make it look like Opera spoofing itself as IE...) replacing IE's is slightly less trivial, but still not difficult. Jim.
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