X-Message-Number: 27434
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:12:27 -0500
From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <>
Subject: The Case of the Conflicting CryoNet Cookie

In CryoNet message # 27431 "Hamen Cheese" said:

   "I tried to delete the faulty post
   from the queue but it won't let me"

This almost certainly happened because Hamen Cheese has:
(1) subscribed to CryoNet under more than one email address,
(2) established a Rater Code (which also is used for unposting a
     message from the CryoNet Queue) for one email address, and
(3) posted to CryoNet from another email address.

CryoNet uses a single cookie called "ratercode" that stores
your Rater Code so that you do not need to keep typing it in
while rating CryoNet messages.  If you subscribe to CryoNet
under two different email addresses, though, it's easy to
establish a Rater Code that is associated with one address
while posting messages to CryoNet from the other address.
But only messages sent from the address associated with your
Rater Code may be unposted from the CryoNet Queue.

There are many solutions:

(A) Delete all your cookies.
(B) Delete just your cookie named "ratercode" from host
     www.cryonet.org .
(C) Use a different user profile in your browser to access
     a different stash of cookies.
(D) Use a different browser (Internet Explorer vs.
     Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape) on your PC to access a
     different stash of cookies.
(E) Use a different PC to access a different stash of cookies.
(F) Wait a week for the "ratercode" cookie to expire.
(G) Establish a Rater Code for the email address you used for
     posting a message to CryoNet:
       http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/ratercode.cgi
     and rate a message using that code:
       http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi
     Your "ratercode" cookie will be reset to that new rater code,
     and thus be associated with that new email address.
(H) Set your browser so that it never sends or accepts any cookies.
     (This may be hard to get right if you previously have told your
     browser it is OK to accept www.cryonet.org cookies.)
     Then you will need to enter your Rater Code each time CryoNet
     needs it for rating a message or unposting one of your messages,
     but at least it no longer will associate you with a different
     email address than you expect.

Probably (A), (B), or (G) will be most useful for people who are
changing their CryoNet subscription addresses by subscribing a new
address and then unsubscribing the old one.

Kevin Q. Brown

(include "CryoNet" or "cryonics" in the subject line)

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