Site Privacy issues

[John Lawson]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Ashley Carder wrote:

> Also, I know that the "identify yourself" page is probably annoying, but
> this
> was my tracking mechanism for keeping track of my buddies using the web
> site.

    That may be well and good, but I found it intrusive.  And a beat later, 
your site tried to set a cookie; I dumped it immediately and won't be 
back.

   I do understand perfectly that your's is an innocuous, semi-private 
site, and making the info available to the Legacy Computing community is 
quite laudable - but I'm pretty old-school when it comes to registering 
for things, and I have cookies turned off permanently, only a very few 
sites that I absolutely must visit (for business reasons) get to set a 
goddamn 'cookie', and these get deleted immediately afterward.  It's not 
the thing itself, it's the (curmudgeonly) principle of it.

  It's in the same ballpark as stupid newspapers wanting me to register to 
read thier on-line content.  I choose not to read, in that case.

Cheers

"Grumpy-as-Fred" John