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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Toni Hawryluk wrote:

> Tvo complained :
>  
>
> > I don't mind the well-programmed and automatic logins---what I really 
> >    
> despise are newspapers that require you to manually log in every time 
> you call up their website.
>
> Automatic, to me, means that they have retained
> ?somewhere? my ID for any hacker - - -
>
> Manual, to me, means that my ID is 'out there' only
> for the time I'm at *their* site - - - 
>  

tvoiovozhd---in all the re-login manual sites that I have run across, if 
you forget your password, they have a dialog box you can click and they 
will e-mail you your password---they can't do that without a cookie any 
more than an automatic login can open their websight to you without a 
cookie.

> And yes, I've 'heard' about Web-bots, but I subscribe
> to the school of fish theory - with so many others
> 'around' me, until it's 'my turn', why volunteer for
> 'automatic' ? (actually, I don't volunteer at all - even
> though, as Gene pointed out : the price of freedom .....
> I volunteer for useful purposes)
>  
tvoivozhd---keeping out of the line of fire entirely is a good 
practice---sometimes you have to get out of the foxhole to shoot at the 
bad guys, or even to get a drink of water.