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Re: lynx-dev changed default for PERSISTENT_COOKIES
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Henry Nelson |
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Re: lynx-dev changed default for PERSISTENT_COOKIES |
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 14:56:42 +0900 (JST) |
> * People often type their email or postal address into forms, when
> registering at a site or requesting information.
> in order to know why, in *my* best judgement, PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE should
> not be the default; no matter what other browsers do, or what people
> (*informed* people, at least to the degree that they know about cookies)
> expect. (The folks most likely to get burned are also the least likely
> to complain to lynx-dev. They just don't know what's going on.)
A single Lynx binary often is available to MANY careless or unwitting users.
These users can create a huge influx of spam mail that can clog up a system.
__Henry