07-14-19 22:02 JIM WELLER wrote to ED VANCE about locator cookies
Howdy! Jim,

 JW> {at}MSGID: 

 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Michael Loo <=-

 ML> When I stay in Hiltons, I'm deemed to be in Kansas

 EV> I live in Southern Indiana and use DSL from AT&T.
 EV> Websites 'think' I am in the Indianapolis Area in the middle of
 EV> the State

 EV> I suppose AT&T sends my DSL service up to their equipment in
 EV> Indianapolis before it goes out on the WWWeb.

 JW> So I started checking out mine. Everyone seems to know I live in
 JW> Yellowknife: Shoppers Drugs, Canadian Tire, Home Hardware, Loblaws,
 JW> The Co-Op etc. Loblaws has two stores but doesn't know which one is
 JW> closest to the house or which one I shop at. The occasional spammer
 JW> thinks I'm in Whitehrose in the Yukon which is where my provider's
 JW> headquarters is.

Meijer, Target, ALDI and Wal*Mart each have two stores in my area.
One Store in the County I live in, and another Store in the next County
that I regularly drive through.

Kroger has several locations in both Counties.

Good! for your provider having your service "STEALTH'ed" as
AT&T does my DSL.

I use Thunderbird to get my WebMail and only check WebMail occasionally in
case they put a message in the SPAM-BOX that I want to go to the IN-BOX.

AT&T does a good job moving incoming messages into the SPAM-BOX.
I wouldn't want to read them anyway.

Since I use Thunderbird's Address Book, all I have in the WebMail Address
Book are Addresses such as; ABUSE{at}ATT.COM so if SPAMMERS get in my WebMail
Account they will sent their bogus Emails to the right place (AT&T).

73 de Ed W9ODR  .           .


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