1997-05-23 - Re: Hacked, Trashed and Out of Beer

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From: se7en <se7en@dis.org>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
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Message ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970523014805.25486b-100000@kizmiaz.dis.org>
Reply To: <v03007803afa82e2d94a2@[207.94.249.80]>
UTC Datetime: 1997-05-23 09:04:06 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:04:06 +0800

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From: se7en <se7en@dis.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:04:06 +0800
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Hacked, Trashed and Out of Beer
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On Tue, 20 May 1997, Bill Frantz wrote:

> Gee, your server sure wants to send a lot of cookies.  I consider receiving
> a cookie before getting a statement, or being able to guess (e.g. WEB
> shopping), about their use to be an unfriendly act.

The SysAdmin for the domain has installed AccessWatch for maintaining an 
HTML version of hit statistics for the server. This application is doing 
what you mention above. There is no nefarious purpose in trying to get 
you to my page. Check out: http://www.dis.org/access to see what all the 
cookies being sent are being used for.

se7en






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