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To: Dan Good who wrote (2908)	10/16/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 32873

Dan, there are allot of privacy issues to deal with regarding the Internet, cookies, proxy servers, Netscape's Smart Browser, etc....etc....etc.... I have heard of proxy servers using browsing habits of people for marketing purposes. You use a proxy server to speed up your surfing, the ISP stores the cache on their machines, but there are companies that abuse all these things that are meant to "benefit" us. Do you ever wonder why you get so much JUNK MAIL (snail mail)??? Well someone is gathering information about you, and selling your name and address in the form of Mailing Lists. Very easy to buy. So now with the Internet, this can be done, in the background, and you don't even know it.

To: Dan Good who wrote (2908)	10/19/1998 9:37:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32873

>>The presence of Cookies are one of the ways a site customize the way you get information in a way you desire. They are one of the easier ways for a programmer to figure out the way you want to view their site upon return. Yes, and programmers have a perspective different from their users, often, unfortunately. The info stored in cookie files is also in a well-known location in plain text files. Anybody with even primitive info on the format of site x's cookies can access them and, potentially, interpret them, for whatever purposes. Can you imagine, for instance, the number of people who have inside info on Microsoft's cookie format? Or Amazon.com? Did you just get a cable modem and hook it up? Do you know what access that gives to your computer by any number of people? Do you run Win 95/98? Do you know what access the low-paid night-shift techies down at your ISP can gain to your computer? How many of them were fired from Microsoft? How many still work there? These questions need answers by anyone who routinely accepts cookies. Spots