Re: Bloody "cookies" and yahoo

From: Rich (rightwing_at_america1st.com)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:23:48 -0400

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:05:57 -0600, Greg Crinklaw
<capellasoftyourspleen@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Rich wrote:
>> I was on one of the yahoo astro groups and the stupid thing
>> kept prompting me to take a cookie (4 different ones each
>> time I accessed a post!). So finally, I relented, let it give me
>> one, then another one. Within 10 minutes this SPAM astro
>> stuff showed up on my screen.
>>
>> http://skyinsight.net/indexstd.html
>>
>> Well, moderator of that site, I will NEVER visit it now.
>
>Too bad for you. Had you followed the link you would have discovered
>that it offers a free service to search the yahoogroup you were reading.
>
>Oh well.

If I'd wanted it, I'd have gone looking. Why are you condoning this?
Do you use this kind of thing to sell software?



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