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To: Carl R. who wrote (210)	7/1/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Claire G	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 236

you are a little bit parnoid, the cookies track what you do on a web sitw you are on. not everywhere you go on the net. Cookies are place on your hard drive by asp or cgi application. Once you leave the web site that place the cookie on hard drive, the cookie has noway of knowing what else you do on the web. It is simple a file, created by active content web site. It is use only by a specific web site. As far as java and javascript no reputable web site would use either of these to spread virus. Almost every service provider supports Ident servers, which verifies your identity to any server that ask for it. Therefore it is virtually imposible to hide you identity on the internet. Claire

To: Carl R. who wrote (210)	7/1/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 236

Re cookies: Raging Bull does use cookies. This is what I have on my system from a visit there some time ago (with a few random number changes): AccipiterId 00000000Define www.ragingbull.com/ 0 3270900276 39209417 2145568220 49448615 I checked on things here by running the beta site with "Warn before accepting cookies" turned on, and by looking at the cookie that was written to my disk. This version of SI seems to care about the cookies only at login. Along with authorization (login) information (since I accepted that option), it stores the customization of the toolbar in the cookie. It doesn't to read or write cookies anytime within the site. And despite what some may want you to believe, a site cannot "track everything you do on the web". At best, a site can track what your machine is doing on their site, and perhaps retrieve some information about what you've done on a selection of other sites since a server can only ask for a specific cookie whose name it knows. But then again, the web seems to be a font of paranoia, and there are some who are happy that way, so if there weren't these sorts of things to worry about, then something else would be needed.