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To: RTev who wrote (1567)	8/9/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Tom C	Read Replies (1) of 2340

do you have a specific objection to the information they store in their cookies. Yes. I object to the customization options being stored in the cookie. This is a poor design. I have more than one machine at home and I use a lot of other machines when I am on the road. Why should I have to customize it each time I use SI on another machine. I probably won?t so this means the customization options are less useful for me. I would also like to see all of the fields in the cookie documented then I might have some additional specific objections. If there is nothing to hide then they should provide documentation on the fields in the cookie. Let?s say that I go to the local library and decide to use the SI there or one of those Internet Cafes. This provides two problems: 1) I?m leaving some information behind when I leave (not biggy) but I would like to know what I?m leaving behind. 2) I may start up with someone else?s account options (I haven?t tested this so maybe they take care of this some how like clearing all the fields of the cookie when the log in name is different from the one in the cookie). What if two people share a machine but have there own SI accounts? I can see it now. Husband: ?Dammit, who keeps changing the thread messages from ascending to descending order? Alice!!!? Is this just a generalized paranoia about the technology No. If I have to use cookies when I?m building a site I will. I try to restrict it to information that is relevant for that session and not as a mechanism to persist data between sessions as appears to be the case here. I might use a cookie to record and enforce the order that data entry forms in the website are visited in order to assure data consistency but that is an intra session use. Cookies are more scalable than keeping session variables in memory but I don?t consider it a good way to persist data from session to session. Would you prefer to have all of your preferences written to a database on the SI servers? Yes. An alternative that has some advantages, although it loses a bit of "privacy".) If they want to hand over my Customization Options when my data is subpoenaed I won?t sweat it. I just wish they would let me know in advance which is not the current policy unless it?s changed recently. Since you seem to be making a claim here with regards to privacy being greater or lesser, maybe you can provide a layout that describes the elements of the cookie and its reason to exist then we might be able to decide if the new system provides greater or lesser privacy compared with the ?classic? version. ;-) Maybe we can get the database layouts and compare the new and old as well. Tom ps: Now when I paste from MS Word to SI I get ? in place of some double quotes(") and single quotes(')

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