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Date:      Sun, 4 Apr 1999 12:11:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe <joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu>
To:        Scott Mitchell <rsm@acm.org>
Cc:        Doug Beaver <dougb@scalar.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Chuck is cute
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990404121027.21072A-100000@lab.cba.ualr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990403193726.00403@goatsucker.org>

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On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Scott Mitchell wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Doug Beaver wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:42:18AM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> > > True, but amazon.com and amazon.co.uk also use cookies, and forget who I am 
> > > when I turn them off...
> > 
> > Hi Scott:
> > 
> > Well, yeah, of course it's going to forget you if you don't have cookies
> > turned on...  Would you expect it to work any other way?  ;-)
> 
> Not really... I guess that's the point I was trying to make.  I have
> cookies turned on because they make my life easier; Amazon (for instance)
> already know my address and credit card number, so I can't really object to 
> the cookie -- I wouldn't have told them all the other stuff if I thought
> they were going to misuse it.
> 
> I guess it all depends on how paranoid you are :)
> 

ln -s /dev/null cookies



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