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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (758)	5/21/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Price Watch pricewatch.com Try accepting the "cookie" If I'm not mistaken, many websites install cookies when you go there. It allows them to track your surfering habits and give you advertisements that correspond to such. S.W.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (758)	5/21/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Bob, the cookie lets them know who has visited their web page. In Navigator, click on Edit, Preferences, Advanced, under cookies, click on accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server. This should let you in, hope it helps /jw

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (758)	5/22/1998 4:34:00 AM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

For many web sites it's practically impossible to run without cookies. The original web serving paradigm was: 1. receive request for web page; 2. serve page; 3. forget the entire transaction. That's fine if all you do is look at the Fish-Cam, but it doesn't work when the web server needs to remember that one page is related to another in a single transaction (e.g., buy a product on one page; enter credit card info on next page; receive confirmation number on third page). So most cookies are just a big random number, unique from anyone else's number, that lets the server know that all your page requests came from your computer. No big whoop. As long as you make sure a cookie can't be returned to a site other than the one that created the cookie, they're safe (and even if you don't protect against that, you're still safer than you are when you give your credit card to the server at your local restaurant). Enable cookies and forget about it. [Spoken by a developer who knows what a pain in the _ss it is when web clients turn off the cookies on their browsers] P.S. I saw the other replies to your message and just wanted to add that cookies are for more than advertisements -- they're a virtually indispensable part of a sophisticated web site.