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                             Guess I was wrong …

Last month [1] I heard a rumor that it was possible to find out the
resolution of a browser window and I found no proof of it. Well, I was wrong.

I wasn't entirely wrong, but via SlashDot, [2] a report on Earthlink's [3]
browser that does include that information. I checked my own log files and
yup, there it is:

> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::000041100400030003e201f6000000000501000900000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::000041100400030003e201f6000000000501000900000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::000041100400030003e201f6000000000501000900000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::00004110028001e002740103000000000502000800000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::00004110028001e002740103000000000502000800000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::00004110028001e002740103000000000502000800000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::00004110028001e002740103000000000502000800000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::0000411003200258029a015b000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::000081100400030000000000000000000503002a00000000
>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
>  ::ELNSB50::000081100400030000000000000000000503002a00000000
>

Also from the logs, it looks like they started using this on or about April
of 2000, so it's been going on for some time now.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/02/24.5
[2] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/20/1423223&mode=flat
[3] http://grc.com/su/earthlink.htm

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