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Re: cookies and privacy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Dittrich)
Thu Jul 18 19:16:57 1996

Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich@cac.washington.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9607181728.AA14186@mammothcave.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

> > I wonder if collecting marketing data isn't perceived so differently that
> > the larger national media will pass on it.


People, really.  This cookie thing is getting way out of hand
bandwidth-wise.  I suggest that before anyone else continue to weigh
in with speculation, accusations, suggestions to vendors, activist
tactics, etc., that you read this article:

http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-07-1996/nw-07-cookies.html

--
Dave Dittrich                  Client Services, Computing & Communications
dittrich@cac.washington.edu    University of Washington

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