[plug] Cookies

Bret Busby bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au
Wed Nov 29 12:54:44 WST 2000


Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
> > Thus, cookies appear to be an
> > Archilles heel, in the security.
> 
> > As I have stated, Amway had had the secure website functioning, without
> > cookies, previous to the current version.
> 
> It's a moot point anyway. The Achilles' heel of Amway is that magic word
> ``exponential.'' To give you some idea of how well network marketing in general
> works, OmegaTrends, at the point where they had 100,000 registered distributors,
> had *8* distributors earning more than $50,000 a year, two of whom were the
> founders. Put another way, the odds of earning as much as a mediocre accountant
> were at least 12,500:1 against. In this setting, the odd angry cookie is a
> fairly trivial consideration.
> 

Ho hum. I had asked for any comments about Amway itself, to be made
off-list. I suppose there has to be one, in every bunch... 



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