From: Robert Bononno 

A lot of the info is innocuous--or at least readily available from other
sources. Hell, I get tons of junk mail (the paper kind) from all sorts of
orgs I've never heard of and never contacted. Obviously, they know who I am
and where I am--even if they occasionally get my gender wrong.

The  NYT site doesn't ask for much more. Wonder if they just compile
mailing lists and sell the stuff.


In article ,
 "Robert Comer"  wrote:

> I agree with you on this one.  Most real people do not worry about
> persistent cookies and giving out truthful demographic info, they just want
> things easy, even at the cost of some privacy. (if they even think about
> privacy in these kind of issues, it'd certainly take second seat to ease of
> use.)
>
> I don't block all cookies either and very rarely hide any info from
> questions.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
> news:q6p2ev8u9bt8hbehnotqd3pcq98h77470l{at}4ax.com...
> > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:24:50 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
> >
> > >If you have persistent cookies turned off so they can't track
your visits
> > >and you have to fill out the stupid thing every time.
> > >
> > >What bothers me is it's so stupid, who the heck is going to give them
> real
> > >information? I mean talk about a useless chunk of information.
> >
> > Just about everyone will and I have no doubt does. Why wouldn't they?
> >
> > For that matter, it wouldn't occur to me to block all cookies either. That
> would
> > interfere far too much in terms of convenience and plain usefulness.
> >
> > Gene
> >
>
>

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