Thank you for your very informative explanation. It stimulated me to
experimentation.
I intended to delete the files in those alpha-numeric files in Content IE5.
Selecting all in the first one resulted in the deletion of all the cookies.
They don't go to the recycle bin.
So I re-established my links to the Web Sites I remembered had ID's and
passwords. The first was the NY Times. After "reading the paper", I went
to Options to see how many cookies would be there from the NY Times.
Summary:
7 HTML files - 123KB
70 GIF files - 179 KB
6 JPEG files - 110KB
Amazing because I never realized the number of unique cookies one Web Site
installs.
Thanks again,
John Penasack
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Alan S. Harrell
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 10:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SaF] Browser Selective "Cookie" Removal
>
>
> On 20 Aug 2000, 9:54, John P. Penasack wrote:
>
> > Is there a way of notifying potential Cookie installers that they must
> > explain what they are installing?
>
> Yes. You send them e-mail and make your inquiry. Put them on the
> spot. :-)
>
> Some sites have this explained on their Privacy page - the page where
> they give you their BS explanation of what their Privacy Policy is and
> sometimes why they are placing so many cookies on your hard drive.
>
> > That sounds naive, but I feel there is an obligation on the installers
> > part to explain why so many from a site are necessary.
>
> Answer: To better control you.
>
> Web sites want to keep data on their visitors, but they don't want to
> keep that data on their servers due to the high demand of their own
> resources for the many visitors they get, so they keep it on our
> individual disk drives, instead.
>
> > I'm aware of the cookie list in the Browser->Internet
> > Options->General->Settings,
> > but can't figure out why I have 8 folders in Windows\Temporary Internet
> > Files\Content IE5. They have random alpha-numeric names, and all seem to
> > have the same list of cookies. Can they all be deleted, because the
> > list is at the Content IE5 level?
>
> IE's method of cookie and cache archiving is based on their belief that
> outside interests would have a harder time stealing the data if it is
> located in an arbitrary or random assigned directory. Personally, I
> think it is all designed to make it more difficult for the end user to
> maintain. I used to like the way I could make the Netscape cookie.txt
> file read_only. Web sites would think they were writing to the file,
> but actually nothing would get entered to it. :-)
>
> John, visit Cookie Central to learn all you can about Internet Cookies:
>
> http://www.cookiecentral.com/
>
> In the final analysis, you can't surf the web and participate in many
> of the services the web offers without enabling cookies. It is a
> necessary evil for many things, such as services that use your login
> data to take you to your special web page or shopping services that
> keep track of your "shopping cart."
>
>
> Alan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
