Oh, dear. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Meanwhile, we've brought up a new system on Oracle and I've
successfully created Crystal Reports accessing Oracle tables
and Rbase tables concurrently, and
our mainframe programmers are going, "Oo! Ah!" :)
Douglas Daily
Payroll Manager
Facilities Services, box 352215
206-221-4357
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Crued @ Enteract wrote:
> They can identify you in regards to sites you visit, but they aren't
> harvesting your personal information. No different than what retail stores
> do when they ask you for your zip code or your phone number and whatnot.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IF VB IS SO GOOD WHY ARE YOU USING RBASE!
>
>
> > A cookie is not kept for the purpose of collecting personal information
> for
> > a company. A cookie contains information that allows a webserver to
> > remember settings/info you entered at that site. If a cookie were to
> store
> > your information for a company, why would they store it on *your* machine?
>
> The ad services use cookies to assemble a database of information about you
> from all the different web sites you visit that feature their ads. By
> storing a cookie in your browser they are able to identify you everytime one
> of their ads is loaded into your browser, thus allowing them to aggregate
> data across what you might believe to be unrelated visits to web pages.
> --
> Larry
>
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