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Put a link on your page to the cookie as an HTML page.  If users WANT to
see it - they only need click.

It is ignorant to do business with cookies and popups.  Imaging going to a
hardware store and opening the door to be greeted by a person who insists
you listen to their spiel about calling cards, etc., before you are
permitted to enter the store.  You went there looking for a screwdriver -
not a calling card.

Same thing applies on the Internet for business' - give people what they
expect to find at your business web-site.

Consider Canadian Tire or Zellers who put a flyer in a bin near the front
door.  If anyone is interested to see the great specials, they will pick up
a flyer and glance through it.  Same thing applies on the 'net - put a link
and perhaps a nice graphic that looks like a bin with flyers in it.  If
they click on the graphic - they see your great deals.

T.

Dave O'Connor <dandm@storm.ca> wrote in article
<6eki65$4k4$1@news.storm.ca>...
> Dear Colin and all readers:
> 
>     I found your post quite interesting, as we have been debating adding
a
> cookie to our company website.  We wanted to create a cookie that would
> allow us to not display a certain pop up advertisement if the user had
been
> to our site before, as the pop up could get quite annoying.
>     However, due to the largely unfounded paranoia involving cookies, we
> feared that users wouldn't be able to view our site if they had cookies
> disabled, so we simply removed the pop-up, not exactly what we wanted to
do,
> but we were getting feedback that the pop up was annoying after the first
> visit.
>     This is unfortunate as our pop up was for a free service that many
> viewers of our page might enjoy, but in the assessment of cookie versus
> annoyance, the ad lost out.
>     Your article points to the benign nature of cookies, and I wish that
> more users would take the time to learn about them, as accepting cookies
can
> make web browsing a much more interesting experience.
> 
> Dave O'Connor
> AMO Consultants
> www.storm.ca/~dandm/
> 
> 
> 
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