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Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation

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• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:26:07 -0500
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Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG/MAT wrote:
> Cookies can be and are used to track individual's usage, but there
> are many other ways to track people.  When I consider the primary
> method that was used to track people using cookies, it seems to me
> that it would be nearly as easy to track people without the use of
> cookies, using login session information.
> 

One thing cookies can be good for is when you have a dynamic IP address. 
  The server can't know you by IP then, but it can know you by cookie.

Cheers,

Tom P

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