- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:09:43 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker wrote: > Here is a proposal on Automated Forms Filling Funny thing is, I think this is solving the problem at the wrong place, mostly due I believe to an inadequate exploration of the problem before the solution was pursued. The problem is that many content providers out there want a way to be able to ask the user for information about themselves in ways that present fewer obstacles than thowing up a blank form and even possibly creating an email/password combo. To many content providers, even if this information isn't specific to the individual, it's still incredibly useful. Dumb marketers collect email addresses of visitors in the naive belief that sending unsolicited email to this list of addresses is a good idea. Smart marketers are interested in finding out what the zip codes of the visitors to their site are, in aggregate. To marketers, information like that is as good as gold. SO - why not make collection of private information a part of the payments and authentication mechanisms? Since this idea is involved much more heavily with HTTP authentication than with HTML, I will be continuing this thread on www-talk in a few minutes. Those who don't want to subscribe to the list can follow the hypermail archive at <URL:http://www.eit.com/goodies/lists/www.lists/>. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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