[plug] Re: biscuits

[Stephen Hardman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: [plug] Re: biscuits


> 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?
> 

hey leon hi ya been