On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:55:50 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Sam,
> I don't think anything dire was planned when webbox asked for your
> password. I use the older www.startmail.com to access my e-mail on my
> ISP via the web; to do that both username and password are required.
> Webbox offers, somewhere, the ability to access up to 5 e-mail accounts;
> the first one would have been the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> So far, having used www.mailstart.com for a couple of months or so, I've
> had no bad repercussions from providing my e-dress & password. I
> haven't gotten any nasty letters accusing me of spamming or anything
> like that. <G> I actually checked my mail using webbox yesterday ...
> all I had to do was re-enter my password, since I'd logged off of
> mailstart prior to switching over to webbox.
> So I don't think providing the password should cause any problems;
> neither username or password are saved, or I wouldn't have to enter the
> data each time ... a cookie would tweak an automagic feed, right??
> l.d.
Yes, L.D., one might think that a cookie might tweak an automagic feed if
the password were saved my means of cookies. The problem is that we really
don't know whether the data were saved. There are many methods by which
data may be saved without resorting to cookies. Because of a tendency
in most of us to want to be trusting of others, we really do want to trust
the website.
Sam Heywood
P.S. Has anyone noticed that Michael has inserted the following kernel of
wisdom into one of his pages in Arachne 1.60 :"Just because you're paranoid
doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't really out to get you."?
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-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
