[LINK] Link Institute Test #376

[Roger Clarke]

There's an *aw*ful lot I don't know about browser behaviour.

At:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/washington/05dna.html?_r=2&ei=5094&en=4f5fb3a245f37a20&hp=&ex=1170738000&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1170750319-0Gc1XiZwtxr3D2ejsVZbUw
and using Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3), but also Camino 2006091101 (1.0.3).

I did a copy of the text plus what came with it from the body of the page.

I pasted it into an email (Mac Eudora 6.2, if it matters).

I got:

>U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling
>	*	E-MAIL0
>	*	PRINT
>	*	SINGLE PAGE
>	*	REPRINTS
>	*	SAVE
>	*	SHARE
>	*	DIGG
>	*	FACEBOOK
>	*	NEWSVINE
>	*	PERMALINK
>
<By JULIA PRESTON
>Published: February 5, 2007
>The Justice Department is completing rules ...

[All of the > above were manually inserted to distinguish the paste]

When I go looking for <PERMALINK>, which I'd like to use, I find 
nothing in either the web-page or the web-page-source.

Brownie-points to the first [correct] explanation ...


<aside>

NYT has one of the more interesting cookie-explanations:
http://www.nytimes.com/membercenter/faq/cookies.html

It's not RFC2964-compliant, and I want an easy ability to kill the 
persistent cookies (even though NYT rates reasonably highly in my 
personal trust-ladder).  But at least it's interesting.  If only I 
had the time to go back and do the definitive article on cookies in 
2007.  I remember when life was simple enough to do that kind of 
thing.  But that was 1996.]

</aside>

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