Re: Tech: Am I naive or what? Can this really happen?

[John_Goldsmith <goldsmith@RAINBOW.FVRCS.GOV.BC.CA>]

Welcome to the wonderful of the Web.  Like banner adds on Yahoo or
AltaVista, cookies are the price we pay for free access to web sites.

There are however ways to avoid the inevitable "spam fest" that
follows a visit to many of these sites. The easiest way I've found to
avoid the junk mail avalanche is to obtain another e-mail address -
one of the free ones - from places like Yahoo, Hot Mail or Excite.
Then, go back into preferences area of your web browser and
substitute this new "free-mail" address for the one that was there
before if it was your main e-mail address.  The free-mail address
will now be the one left behind as part of the cookie information
when you click from web site to web site.

If you feel charitable, you might check your free-mail box once in a
while to delete the junk message - or maybe not.  Then your free-mail
box will fill up and all those junk messages will simple bounce back
to their sender. Now, won't that be sad ;-)



>Hey All,
>
>Some technological wizard out there please tell me that web sites can't
>share each other's cookies.  This is getting crazy!
>
>Aaron Noll
>F. C. Reed Middle School
>Librarian (Tech Guy in a Crunch
>Phone 616-466-0235
>Fax 616-466-0393
>anoll@remc11.k12.mi.us
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: School Library Media & Network Communications
>[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]On Behalf Of Josephine Dervan
>Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:02 PM
>To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>Subject: Re: Am I naive or what?
>
>
>No Patty, you're not being naive. Your comments on Amazon.com's
>tailoring suggestions to your needs reminded me of an article
>(either online or in the newspaper?) that I read recently. The
>gist of the article was that by using cookies, online retailers
>are targeting their offerings to your specific needs. This has
>proved a very successful tactic for Amazon.
>
>Jo- enjoying the last few days of vacation before Sept.6th
>
>***********************************************************
>Josephine G. Dervan, Library Media Specialist
>Strathmore Elementary School
>Aberdeen, NJ 07747
>
>Home- rderva@infi.net
>School-jdervan@marsd.k12.nj.us
>
>He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero
>
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