[plug] Re: biscuits

[Leon Brooks]

Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, 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?
> 
> Bret, that implies they already _have_ your email address, so why would
> they wait until you visited their site with cookies enabled before
> sending you SPAM?

D'oh, that was pretty crummy reasoning... had all the ingredients 
necessary to ``flour'' into a full bunfight, glad that at yeast Matt 
didn't rise to it, using his loaf and leaven it impersonal. (-:

Bearing the Eucharist in mind, I wonder - is enabling cookies a 
requirement for Roman Catholics and ``High'' Anglicans? Does the vatican 
website use cookies, or does it prefer the term ``hosts,'' thereby 
confusing Protestant/Atheist/Pagan/Islamic/etc technicians?