In article <MPG.174f6893573fa28989707@news.povray.org> , Lutz-Peter Hooge 
<lpv### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> But this "cure" is a really ugly one since it bannes innocent people who
> just don't have cookies enabled from using the web interface, and also it
> obviously sometimes causes problems with enabled cookies...

Cookies are cookies and they do always work if enabled.  If someone disables
them and doesn't know how to turn them on again it is not exactly reasonable
to blame the site for it.  By default browsers today ask before accepting
cookies or accept them blindly if sent back only to the site setting them, so
it is very reasonable to expect them to be enabled.

Besides, it does not ban anybody from the site:

First, it is offered as a convenient *optional* way to read these newsgroups
without a newsreader.  Nobody says you cannot just get and configure any
newsreader and access the groups the "regular" way.

Second, it is a good protection against those who collect email addresses to
flood you with spam.  If you prefer spam which you cannot control over cookies
which you can control that may be your choice, but don't expect many to agree
with you in this regard.

> Such a "cures" should alway be server-side if possible
> (like don't showing email adresses, and limit the number of pages a
> client can request)

If you look, the server does not show email addresses of posters.  It would
have helped to check what you are claiming *before* complaining!  However, it
simply cannot remove email addresses from message bodies as that would in many
cases destroy parts of the messages.


And last, but surely not least:

Nobody, absolutely nobody is forcing you to use the web view.  If you don't
like it, its cookies, or can't figure how to use it, don't use it.


Oder auf Deutsch:  Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht in Maul ;-)

    Thorsten


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