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Subject: Re: Is 'wh*ch' useful? --> moved from -work
From: Norbert Bollow <nb @ pobox . com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:48:05 +0200
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <ufau3eho6bv.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> (message from Jason L Tibbitts III on 16 Oct 1997 14:28:52 -0500)

Jason wrote:

> Outside of just not having that functionality in the interface, there will
> never be a way to prevent it.

Many services with www interface require an e-mail exchange once (at sign-up
time) to reliably associate a cookie with an e-mail address. Then the cookie
can be used for authentication later. Some browsers even support "cookie files"
or whatever they may be called and handle this authentication procedure 
completely in the background (i.e. without bothering the user at all).

-- Norbert.


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