[CLUG] maybe we should call them biscuits here

[ad at m.beecher.net]

Saw that on Wired earlier. I love this bit:

<QUOTE>
The IAB has marshaled support from its members across Europe to launch a
lobbying effort it calls "Save our Cookies." Meadows-Klue admitted the name
sounds a bit childish but said the ramifications of the EU's directive were
serious. It could result in the loss of more jobs and more business failures
in the already-beleaguered Internet sector, he said.
</QUOTE>

"Save our Cookies"! What moron came up with that? (Probably the guy who
writes all the TV ads.)

adam


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> Sent: 31 October 2001 20.17
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> Subject: [CLUG] maybe we should call them biscuits here
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> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011031/wr/cookie_group_dc_1.html
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> LONDON (Reuters) - The ``cookie'', a simplistic identification
> tag that most
> Internet users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the
> risk of being
> outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission
> (news - web sites).
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