On 7 Apr 99, at 18:06, Rick Glazier wrote:

> Seems like when I go to some Internet WEB sites, for each button they
> put on my screen, they want to give me a cookie that will remain on
> my hard drive for 37+ years...  Some pages do this twenty or thirty
> times...  Why is this necessary? What am I missing?

  Well, *I* call it "poor site design".  In some extreme cases, it
seems like each page on a site wants to store a cookie for each button
on the navigation bar -- I believe that more than one per page is
excessive.  In the navigation case:  since I have come to *this* page,
I must not be at any of the site's other pages, and storing a "not
here" cookie for each of them is an obvious but *stupid* thing to do.

  Although Microsoft warns that some sites may not work correctly if
you do not accept cookies, THEIRS is the only site I've seen where this
seems to actually be true.

  IE5 apparently "fixes" the problem:  If you have accepted a cookie
from a site (or if you have an old cookie you once accepted from
them...), then IE5 will silently accept any additional cookies
*regardless* of your current settings.
  Remember, the clever folks at Microsoft know what's good for you and
your computer!  (This has been a common Microsoft attitude for over 20
years now....)

David G

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