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Re: Here's How To Turn OFF cookies WITHOUT getting the annoying Warning Messages!

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From: lvirden
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:00
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According to Ian A. White <whitewai@WAI.Engineering>:
:On Sat, 17 May 1997 21:56:44 +0100, Chris Marriott
:<chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:
:>In article <337d7045.608048@news.uwa.edu.au>, Peter Robinson
:><ribbo@iinet.net.au> writes
:>>Or you could just download Preview Release 4 of Netscape Communicator
:>>and it has the option to not accept any cookies at all
:>
:>... as, indeed, does Internet Explorer, but why would anyone not want to
:>accept them? They are extemely useful things!
:
:They are, only you would not want to hand out your details to anyone.

Luckily, cookies are not designed in that manner.  Each cookie is unique
to a site, so one can't, via cookies, hand out details to anyone.  ActiveX
can, but that's something different altogether.
-- 
Larry W. Virden                 INET: lvirden@cas.org
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Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
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From: lvirden@cas.org
Subject: Re: Here's How To Turn OFF cookies WITHOUT getting the annoying Warning Messages!
Date: 1997/05/20
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