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To: David W. Taylor who wrote (24904)	7/6/2000 2:58:51 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42787

OT Just got home from a long day and had to respond to only one post I read tonight, yours... Why is it sooo important we accept cookies in your opinion? What benefit is it to the average user that any given site knows how many times I logged onto it, where I have been and what specific page I viewed while there? I have a site as you may know and I can find out what I need to know about my site just by analyzing the number of hits on each page and by the IP addresses people come from if I need demographics. The only use of cookies I have seen is to search for what types of sites a person goes to so a site can know what kind of Advertising SPAM to throw up other than the "save password" cookies which I accept for non important sites only. I have had the misfortune of having to take a computer in to be repaired at various shops over the years and also know a few people that have worked in these shops. Not all, and maybe not the majority of these "technicians" regularly go through your files after a fix to "test" the system out and will also go online and visit your "favorites" in IE or "Bookmarks" in Netscape. (I even had one guy mail my entire joke folder to his home site) Now you tell me why I want to accept all cookies and let some cyber geek log into SI under my alias, or go to my automatic log in at any one of my broker accounts, get into my online banking or credit card account etc or even have the power to administer my website server? It just seems to me you find it very important for all of us to turn our cookies on which now has my alarm bells ringing louder than before this all started. I see from your profile you specialize in "user interfaces in Java" That is pretty scary stuff from the articles I have read... Regular hidden scripts in HTML are bad enough, especailly with the new hidden asp getting so abundant. Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. <ggg> Good Luck, Lee