Help with Yahoo and other web email

[Ken Becker]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Orman Kiser wrote:

> At 01:41 PM 4/1/98 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >> Yahoo email places a cookie on the hard drive when used with Netscape. The
> >
> >We solved this by adding a "del c:\path\cookie.txt" line in the
> >autoexec.bat.  The patron would just have to reboot after logging out.
> 
> I have changed the attributes on the cookie.txt file to read only on our
> public internet computers.  Is this too simple?  Will it cause other
> problems for us?  So far I haven't noticed any.
> 
Sound like that would work too -- except you might get an error message if
you have your browser set to accept all cookies, and then it can't because
the file is write-protected.

Ken Becker
Menlo Park PL