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Re: Unverifiable Transactions / Cookie draft

From: Phillip Lindsay <plindsay@imgis.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:47:41 -0800
Message-Id: <332F299D.2781@imgis.com>
To: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com 
Rob Hartill wrote:

  Cookies are (currently) useful for advertising models, but they are

  certainly not a necessity.

Despite what is implied above,  many ad delivery implementations
currently "require" cookies to function correctly (e.g., sequence,
impression link).
Let's not trivialize the reality of the current situation.   This
standard
will force thousands of web sites to change to support some new
ad delivery mechanism.

Phillip A. Lindsay
plindsay@pacbell.net
Received on Tuesday, 18 March 1997 15:51:17 EST

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