>I'm sorry, but I didn't make it past the first line. I was laughing too
>hard. What kind of ignorance does it take to call cookies "bits of code"?
When I read the article, I thought it was very poorly written.
First, cookies are traditionally sent with HTTP headers, which are never
present in E-mail. So, unless there is a magic way to place cookies in
E-mail aside from using scripts, any E-mail client that has scripting
turned off (which it DEFINITELY should do) will not be able to receive
cookies. I haven't heard of a single case of a spammer using cookies in
E-mail.
Then, then talk about how web sites "now" typically "cloak visitor's
identities". That's a bunch of made-up technobabble. Virtually every web
site keeps logs of the IP address of its visitors, and no other "identity"
is normally sent to web sites.
And what about the horoscope site that knows a consumer only by his birth
date? What web site does THAT? "Required information: Username,
password, birthdate"?
Only about 1/2 way through the article do they mention the real issue;
those 1 pixel by 1 pixel .GIF files that are used to track who has read an
E-mail.
>Oh my! I read further and got another good belly-laugh: "the programming
>language most commonly used to display Web pages, known as HTML (Hypertext
>Markup Language)."
Isn't Windows written in HTML?
-Scott
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