Hi,
On Friday September 29 2000, Julian Aronowitz said to All:
JA> I have to ask one "dumb" question: "Why in the world would you want
JA> to maintain ANY amount of cache, let alone to increase the amount of
JA> room the cache occupies?"
To avoid having to download it again if it hasn't changed.
JA> That info is either placed on your compu-
JA> ter by those computers you have visited, on the Internet, or by V,
JA> itself, to aid in more easily connecting with other computers.
You're thinking of cookies, not cache :)
JA> Many sites, instead of using their computers to keep track of your
JA> info, save all your info on your computer, and then expect to automa-
What they do (normally) is just send a unique ID to match your machine to
their database. Take a look at some cookies to see that. They aren't really
that much of a security risk, at most even if someone gets hold of them from
your machine they could see what books or news items you're interested in..
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