Elardus On the new IBM-MAIN web page with which I am presented, I see a "Preferences" prompt - the first time it has been brought to my attention - some way "down" the right-hand side - hardly the "top corner"!
Selecting it I find a "Login Cookie Expiration" prompt and I discover that, among the values available, I have somehow managed to set/inherit "No Expiration". Note that this is the first time I have had anything whatsoever to do with this whole "Preferences" page. The point about my mentioning "cookies" in the previous post is that, whatever "cookie" has logged that I have entered an e-mail address and password to Internet Explorer, is unprepared to grant the same access privileges to Firefox. That's the mystery - although to say I was losing sleep over it would be an exaggeration! Chris Mason On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:39:10 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: > >>The URL I use to access the archives is the following: >>http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >>Presumably "cookies" are at work here. > >Tough cookie! Cookies are NEEDED if you wish that your browsing session is not >to expire during your browsing session. After expiring, you need to re-type in >you id and password. > >Cookies are also needed if you have specific preferences for your browsing >sessions and other subscription settings. > >See 'Preferences' in the right top corner of your web-page. > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
