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From: Helen <>
Subject: [VIRUS] Ancestry Cookies
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:29:13 -0400


For four years, I have avoided accepting cookies on Internet.
Ancestry.com, a subscription service to genealogy databases
is one of the most insistant that one accept their cookies.
That this is not accountable because of their subscription
service is evident in the fact that their "FREE" subscriptons,
which are run periodically, are equally as pesky. In fact, I
was refused access to a "free" subscription several months ago
because I would not accept their cookies.

QUESTION:
Does acceptance of these cookies allow the "Giver" acces to:
(1) Information stored on your Hard Drive?,
(2) Access to information in e-mail received and sent?
(3) Access to messages stored in browser files, e.g.
Netscape?

Helen Gant Donald

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