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Re: Cookies on Microsoft Explorer?

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To: [email protected], [email protected]
Date: Wed Aug 07 10:46:25 1996
> At 09:14 AM 8/6/96 -0700, [email protected],
>  wrote:
> 
> >I have IE3 configured to ask me for permission to accept a cookie. Yes,
> >some sites send (n!)+1 cookies during a session. If they send too many,
>  I 
> >personally move on to another site, after sending them email (!).
> 
> If the site sends you *LOTS* of cookies with no expire date, then they
>  have
> probibly compiled their Apache server with the mod_cookie module.  The
> cookies are only used by the log files and i am willing to bet that
>  most
> people who have that option compiled in do not even read the logs.

Whatever the conditions/causes for the cookiefest, I make it known to them 
that the volume of cookies gives me electronic diabetes, and move on. I 
suspect that there will eventually be enough people that dislike being 
force-fed cookies and complaining about it that such sites will either 
fold, or get a klew.

Dave

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