From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 23:48:15 MST
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> > Cookies and how to foil them: The best suggestion I've seen, on
> > Slashdot, was a script and a site that allowed everyone to swap cookies.
>
> Analogous to the Cypherpunks' custom (so I've heard) of swapping their
> "Safeway Club" cards.
Yep. I've swapped cards many times. Only a few clerks actually raise an
eyebrow when my name comes out of the system as something like "Stephany
Nguyen" or similar.
Fortunately my name is very common; every city of any size usually has a
half dozen or more people with my name. At stores where they like to
match you to a person/address in their database (like Guitar Center), I'll
usually just pick a random address off the list that comes up matching my
name. Since I often give fictitious addresses, there are a lot of stores
that I frequent that have an enormous list of addresses for people with my
name. I figure that it doesn't really hurt to pollute my personal
namespace.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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