From: "Beth Gottschalk" 
Newsgroups: 
            
lt.parallel.universes,alt.paranet.abduct,alt.paranet.metaphysics,
            
lt.paranet.paranormal,alt.paranet.psi,alt.paranet.science,alt.par
            
net.skeptic,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.paranormal,alt.paranormal.channel
     Organization: none
Original Date: 16 Apr 1997 22:10:52 GMT
Hi -
I've heard cookies are harmless and only stay on your hard drive.  Maybe,
but I don't like them either and don't like the possibilities.
For what it's worth, I found this on another newsgroup:
To get rid of cookies: create folder called "NagiCookies,: put it in
Preferences, then trash original.  Cookies can't collect in the new
one.      (I hope)
Dave Marciniak  wrote:
> Can I dump MagicCookie in Netscape preferences without harming anything?
     Yes, get rid of the Global History file too.  It will help
alieviate crashes.
> Can I track down the cookies that are in this file,
     
     You can use a program that is in the Info-Mac archives called
Cookie Cutter.  This allows you to delete certain cookie references and
keep others
Hope this helps,
Beth.
In article , kenai@chrysalis.org (kenai) wrote:
"this post is going to all newgroups so it is not an error.
"
"i just tried to pull up a page from ziff-davis and when i refused to let 
"the 
"server 'set a cookie' the page stopped loading. it did this several 
"times and 
"the only way i got on the page was to trick the server by hitting reload 
"and 
"stop.
"
"i believe the practice of 'setting cookies' is an insidious means of 
"gathering 
"information on people for the practice of selling lists.
"
"and that this is a gross infringment of our civil right to privacy.
"
"i am posting this to all newgroups in the hopes that i can gain support 
"from 
"the masses and with email, snail mail, telephone, whatever, that we 
"internet 
"users as a group can stop this deplorable means of stomping on our right 
"to 
"privacy.
"
"i have already written email to ziff-davis, as well as infoseek, 
"expressing my 
"views. others, such as microsoft are guilty of this truly vile means of 
"invasion.
"
"SO WAKE UP PEOPLE! TELL THESE USUPERS OF DECENCY JUST WHAT YOU FEEL 
"ABOUT THIS!
"
"kenai
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