From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:11:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cookies on Microsoft Explorer?
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960807070636.00a7ffa8@mail.teleport.com>
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At 09:14 AM 8/6/96 -0700, David.K.Merriman.-.webmaster@cygnus.com, wrote:

>I have IE3 configured to ask me for permission to accept a cookie. Yes, 
>some sites send (n!)+1 cookies during a session. If they send too many, I 
>personally move on to another site, after sending them email (!).

If the site sends you *LOTS* of cookies with no expire date, then they have
probibly compiled their Apache server with the mod_cookie module.  The
cookies are only used by the log files and i am willing to bet that most
people who have that option compiled in do not even read the logs.
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