Help with Yahoo and other web email

Orman Kiser sct004 at mail.connect.more.net
Sat Apr 4 20:41:52 EST 1998


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.

Orman Kiser
Cape Girardeau Public Library
orman at showme.net



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