[plug] email message formats

[Christian]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:16:07PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
 
> If a cookie can identify a person, and, the website happens to be able
> to link the person's identity to the person's email address, can the
> email address of a person not be found, via the use of cookies? If the
> email address of a person can be found, can spam not result from that?
 
The spam results from you giving them your email address.  The presence
of the cookie is irrelevant.  All a cookie does is allows a web site (or
sites) to track your movements.

> To make the statement "You obviously have NO idea how cookies work.",
> sounds to me to be a bit bigoted (bigoted - "unreasonably prejudiced and
> intolerant" - Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Edition, 1990).

I don't think it was "unreasonably prejudiced" and the definition is
clearly connecting the intolerance with the prejudice so I don't think,
according to that definition, the statement was bigotted.  It was a
simple statement of fact.