RE: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

["Eric" <eric@springbreaktravel.com>]

Sotiris,
"Illegal cookies"?  Illegal according to whom?  I can understand your
frustraion with this but the solution would be to not visit the sites
anymore.  I do not spend my money with businesses whose business practices
are frustrating or annoying.  However, I would object to any type of
legislation from any government that would dictate how a web site can be
run.  Do you feel differently?  If so, what action would you like to see be
taken?
Eric Dallin

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Behalf Of Sotiropoulos
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 4:58 PM
To: Robin Miller
Cc: Sandy Harris; wg-review@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners
of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit


1/14/01 9:25:16 PM, Robin Miller <robin@minervan.com> wrote:

>Nothing irritates me more than US Grade A Spam clogging my mailbox.  Spam
is
>bad for bandwidth. In a lot of countries, one pays by the minute for
>downloading email. (even I have to sometimes, if Telekom goes down -
forcing me
>to use an expensive call by call number)

Nothing irritates me than the cookie setting many companies try to use to
monitor my activities on the net.  In fact, as an individual, this worries
me more
than spam.

I just visited nike.com and since I set my browser to reject cookies you can
imagine how "fun" the experience of visitng such a site is for me: my
browser
alerting me repeatedly to attempts to set an illegal cookie... non-stop,
even after having rejected about 20 attempts!

But, I don't see any actions being taken against the setting of cookies...
nor do I foresee anything on the horizon, do you?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc.


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