Herbert, sorry, most of my response was not directed towards you.  I didn't realize people get so emotional about cookies.  I personally have bigger fish to fry.

Regards, Bob

Herbert Graf <mailinglist@FARCITE.NET> wrote ..
> > All a cookie is is a very small text file.  That's it!  You can't
> > get a virus thru it, and it can do the user no harm.  The images
> > that get cached on your box are hundreds of thousands times
> > larger in size than a simple small text file.  So bandwidth or
> > "trash on your drive" is really a non-issue.
>
>         All correct, which is why I didn't say that, try responding to
> the right
> post.
>
> > The piclist archive search uses cookies to save your login
> > information.  Do you hate the piclist archive search too?  By
> > having them enabled, for example, it saves you the step of having
> > to log in every time you visit the archive search.  Now tell me
> > how that is a bad thing?
>
>         Obviously you didn't properly read my post. I never said cookies
> shouldn't
> be used, I said cookies should only be used as a last resort. Using a cookie
> to prevent having to log in every time IS a good use of cookies, and
> therefore I have NO problems with it. A bad use of cookies, for example,
> are
> ad companies that use cookies to track which ads you've seen, THAT is NOT
> a
> good use of cookies, and is one I "hate" as you so elegantly put it.
>
> > While I don't care for the advertisers using cookies to track
> > information about me, it is such an infinitely small concern of
> > mine that I don't care what they know about me.
>
>         Good for you, you don't speak for me though, I think that IS a
> big deal.
> Let me ask you this: where, in your opinion, does tracking your activities
> go "too far"?
>
> > Cookies in their
> > own merits are useful in web development, 99% of people have them
> > enabled anyway.
>
>         Just because 90% of house doors are unlocked doesn't give me the
> right to
> walk in and take stuff, does it?
>
> > I use them all the time in the business
> > applications I develop, simply because in most cases there is no
> > alternative in maintaining some sort of client state.
>
>         Try reading my post again, you obviously didn't the first time,
> you'll find
> that in the case you describe, I have no problems with cookies.
>
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