I've heard about "cookies" ever since I got on-line and I think it's a tracking apparatus or something like that. I don't know if I have any (I don't even have any chocolate-chip cookies) --- but if I did where would I look and how would I get rid of them Am I and a Volkswagen and in need of a bug man? Jane -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Cole <ncole@coffey.com> To: TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com <TNGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [TNGEN-L] Mailing list abuse >Hiya folks, > >My best advice is "toss your cookies." > >I have a 20 year old here and no matter how I rant and rave I get these >offers of pornographic adventures, usually involving teen age girls. > >Last time it might have been me...I got disgusted with a geo cities site >and took the cookies...since then, some porn and a gazillion get rich >quick schemes.... > >If I delete all my cookie files it stops for awhile. > >I delete the spam and to date have killed at least 10 porn vendors e-mail >accounts... > >abuse@whatever.com > >usually works very well. > >Nancy > >On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Fred Smoot wrote: > >> Denise et al, >> >> I receive about 20 commercial e-mails per day. About 50% are for porn >> sites. >> >> I just delete them, because I am usually the only user of this computer. >> >> Here is how I believe I got on their list. I do not accept cookie files. >> And I don't visit porn sites. But last summer my daughter and her "half" > > > > >==== TNGEN Mailing List ==== >Please make sure your links back to any project >site located on USIT has the URL >http://www.tngenweb.org/ > > >