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Re: Factoring going off line for a while
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Date: 
Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:45:19 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
(if this posts, I got the setup stuff right on the webpage. I hate that
process... I just want to log in to LUGNET and tell it "refresh my cookie on
this machine that I haven't used before)...)

Well -- hey -- better yet, what if the server said, "Hey, Hi! You seem to be
using a machine that you haven't used before.  Store a cookie with your info?"
(With, of course, a "don't ask again" checkbox if you say 'no'...)

--Todd



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  Re: Factoring going off line for a while
 
(...) I'm assuming this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the huge security loophole, neh? Agreed, unless it were possible for a member to do it, AFTER logon. James (URL) your messages don't appear to be threading properly (at least via the web (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Factoring going off line for a while
 
(...) Yes. But let me force a cookie to be stored if I want to as well, even if the server thinks there is one there... and let it be my OLD cookie if I want. Sometimes my machines get screwed up. Sometimes I may have copied a cookie file over but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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