Life's a bit like the UN here; appearances count a lot in negotiating
a fragile coalition. If you want to compromise with an attribution
somewhere in the middle, please let me know. What I said is on the
record, so I'm not taking it back, but I appreciate your interest and
the heads-up.
Rohit Khare
PS. The mailing list URL is http://xent.w3.org/FoRK-archive
--- Rohit Khare -- World Wide Web Consortium -- Technical Staff w: 617/253-5884 -- f: 617/258-5999 -- h: 617/491-5030 NE43-354, MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
X-Sender: myrow@venus.sirius.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 22:58:08 -0800 To: khare@w3.org From: myrow@sirius.com (Rachael Myrow) Subject: Permission Request
Hi There! Wendy of Sirius Newsletter fame told me a) you run a nifty mailing list, and b) forwarded me a fascinating posting you recently posted about Pekoe. May I have permission to use some of what you wrote in an article for the Sirius Monthly Newsletter? I would use your words thusly:
"The threats to my perceived "personal boundaries" don't end there. New software called <A HREF="http://www.neico.com/pekoe_suite.html#TRAK">Pekoe[tm]</A>, put out by the <A HREF="http://www.neico.com/">New England Internet Company</A> allows "content vendors" to follow you <B>after</B> you leave their site. In their words, the software "gives advertisers almost unlimited opportunities to carry forth their web-based ad impressions, no longer losing audiences when they click to an external website." If that sounds vaguely disturbing, consider the plain-speak translation offered by <A HREF="mailto:khare@w3.org">Rohit Khare</A>, of the <A HREF="khare@w3.org">World Wide Web Consortium</A> (W3C) to the mailing list he runs: <P><BLOCKQUOTE> "These fellows have developed a $100,000 proxy that ADDS ad banners to pages. Furthermore, it edits all the outgoing urls from a page to point back to the home site, where a redirecting script continues to monitor your every step. And for new users, the effect is completely hidden: it's like stepping in a wad of gum: you can't scrape it off! For example, I pointed it at my home page, and it replaced the embedded link to MIT with: http://146.115.109.131/cgi-bin/Pekoe68ghsd932459 sdljs9034590we90234590234234905290234/http://web.mit.edu/ </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> Yikes. And again, YIKES!"
Most Sincerely,
Rachael
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachael Myrow myrow@sirius.com Los Angeles, CA rmyrow@kusc.usc.edu