I couldn't find the article at that URL, so I'm wondering if their testing methodology took into account the growing number of personal firewall users. Many of those products don't ever "reject" a cookie, they accept all cookies and just never return one so, to the site, it looks like they are a new user. -Alan -----Original Message----- From: Tom Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:27 AM To: Fusebox Subject: FYI: cookie acceptance Hi, Here's a snippet I fund regarding cookie acceptance. "Its latest study showed that consumers rarely reject Web cookies, which track users and were once seen as an intrusion by consumer privacy groups. A sampling of 1 billion-plus page views across Web sites that used HitBox Enterprise sites pegged cookie rejection at 0.68 percent." The full article is at http://www2.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&; dist=yhoo&guid=%7B9CA933F5%2DD4E0%2D464F%2D9B25%2D56B0A5F9DCE5%7D Adios. Tom Ryan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
