Thanks for the post. My husband removed the cookies off my computor too.
I am sincerely glad you have not had trouble with GardenWeb, but others have even though
Spikes rules are followed. I emailed Sponsors and other users of the site after Spike banned me.
Actually others removed the cookies off their computor so they could continue posting. At times other
posts on this site had similar complants about garden web. Spike is very controlling. An opinion or
recommendation is not necessarly wrong, but Spikes view of any recommdation of a company he does not
like as wrong. I cannot help if Spike had trouble with a company I recommended. That is a problem he
has that I am not aware about. And to be banned becaause he did not like it is controlling.

As I stated previously I am not the only one who this happened too. People cannot assume I did
something wrong just becuase it hasn't happened to them yet.


Audrey wrote:

Actually, I thought it was very clever to use cookies to redirect
access! (Contrary to what others may believe, some people garden,
program computers, and even golf! :-)

The ability of any website to write cookies on your computer is
controlled by you (by allowing the capability via the
preferences/settings of your preferred browser -- e.g., Internet
Explorer or Netscape). For example, under Netscape:Edit:Preferences
select the Advanced section and you'll see that you can set the option
to accept all cookies, only those from your website, etc.) Cookies
are simple little entries in a file maintained on your computer. In
fact, you *could* directly edit the cookie file and remove and cookies
that someone had left (get the idea?).

A firewall is used for protection... in both directions. Without
getting too complicated, it can be used to block computers, or entire
subnets/domains of computers, from accessing your site. Or, as in the
case of an employer, it could be used to block OUTWARD access (e.g.,
to keep you from accessing certain sites while you're at work).
Firewalls have nothing to do with cookies, except that if they block
access to a site, then software at that site clearly cannot write a
cookie to your computer!

Been lurking on and off at this group for years. Have even posted a
few odd times -- but never got any replies to my posts. I'd hope at
least *someone* would find my information helpful, and be glad that I
*did* post this too.

Audrey.

"Frodoville" wrote in message ...
I was wondering about how you said he uses the cookies on your computer.
Can that still happen if you have a fire wall?

--
Jam

(remove the "m" )

"Alice Gamewell" wrote in message
...
Try www.Gardenguides.com or www.seedswappers.org. Garden Web stinks. It
is owned
by one guy and even though you follow his rules, if you post something he
doesn't
like , he will never let you post again, by using the cookies on your
computer, he
sends you to a to a Disney site instead.
Just my 2 cents.........
Christine