> GUI browsers ship with persistent cookies already on, and this is one case
One of the many good reasons I use MSIE only when Lynx completely fails,
which isn't all that often.
> where it isn't bad to follow their model. Do things the easy way by default,
Every time I install Windows, one of the first things I have to do is turn
off all the garbage, persistent cookies, applets, javascript, images, that
MSIE ships with. It's not "the easy way by default;" it's a real chore.
> and make people who want to do _abnormal_ things have to configure things
I think not cluttering up one's hard disk with junk unbeknownst to the user
is common courtesy. If persistent cookies has to be on by default, make
the default cookie file "/dev/null."
__Henry
