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(...) Well that's already astoundingly easy -- you just look at the color of the box. If it's blue*, you haven't been there yet. If it's purple**, you've already been there. --Todd * or whatever your LINK color is configured to ** or whatever your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Which is fine, IFF your using the same computer each time. If you hop between work, 2 desktops at home, a laptop, & the in-laws PC it's not as reliable. Brian (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ahhhh. I see. --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snipped discussion> (...) Heh. Looks like someone has my problem :) But to provide a serious bit of input, I suspect that the inconvenience of longer download (because the extra graphics would suck bandwidth) would be greater (for me) than (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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James Brown: (...) Hmm. It would be cool if the server could remember the exact time of your last visit at the end of your browsing session. That way, if you went to a different machine, you could say, "OK, here I am again, but I'm at a different (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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What I would like is to distinguish the notion of machine and person... I have multiple machines and may be at any of them. Other people in my family also use any or all of them. This is where cookies don't do the whole thing, inasmuch as they are (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, I must be misunderstanding your meaning -- that sounds contradictory. If person A in your family logs in and does stuff, then person B logs in instead and does stuff, then that's two different people using the same machine (two different (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) [Some snippage] (...) [More snippage] Didn't you two just say the same thing? It's better for people if their usage history isn't tied to a specific machine. (...) Another cool feature: explicit logout. Click the "logout" button on the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Didn't explain myself well. Comes from talking too fast. I use myYahoo for this but it works this way for many many ecommerce sites (Amazon, for example) If you explicitly log in to yahoo, you're indeed logging in as a person. And anyone who wants (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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