Cookies from web sites

Tue Oct 29 19:34:34 UTC 2002

I'm curious about 'cookies' which web sites wish to leave on my
computer. Many sites in Russia try to leave a cookie that says

Site: .spylog.com

Can anyone tell me what spylog does, and why it is named what it is named?

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Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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