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Rebecca Lizard - Nov 09, 2002 12:44:35 pm PST #1330 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

(eta: so it doesn't pop up as a suggestion in IE)

Oh, interesting. But wouldn't having just gone there, even if you didn't type it in, make it pop up?

(But I see what you mean. When I was a little younger I sent my hotmail address a message just containing the url tabletalk.salon.com. So that when I clicked on it it stayed in MSN's obnoxious little frame; and no one would have to know I was on Salon.)

Can't you just erase it from the History, though?


bon bon - Nov 09, 2002 12:57:21 pm PST #1331 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Can't you just erase it from the History, though?

t blank you mean erase the history? Not at these particular public computers. And that would take some time.

And only urls typed into the address bar pop up, not hotlinks. If you hadn't figured that out by the middle of your post-- I couldn't tell.


Rebecca Lizard - Nov 09, 2002 1:15:53 pm PST #1332 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Huh. We must be using different versions of IE, or I'm confused, because

1) it's always seemed to have recorded everywhere I went, whether it was linked to or typed in

and

2) I've been able to edit history on public computers, with a little flickering around in Preferences at most, as long as it was IE.


bon bon - Nov 09, 2002 1:20:41 pm PST #1333 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

1) it's always seemed to have recorded everywhere I went, whether it was linked to or typed in

Are you sure? Does the address bar history have all the pages you've read at buffistas.org, for instance?


esse - Nov 09, 2002 1:29:39 pm PST #1334 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

No, but they will often record the main site at public terminals. Especially in Explorer -- the whole remember history thing.


bon bon - Nov 09, 2002 1:37:31 pm PST #1335 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Having it come up in history is not something I worry about. It's having the next law student-- some secret Buffy fan-- next to use the computer start to type in "bust" or something, buffistas is suggested, they click through and become entranced. Particularly considering I post under a name I am the only female law student to carry.


Michele T. - Nov 09, 2002 1:46:30 pm PST #1336 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I posted this the last time this came up, but there's a significant percentage of non-expert users who use their search tool, be it Google or Yahoo or whatever their ISP provides as their default homepage, as their address bar. I think it may have something to do with the search box being on the page itself, rather than in the toolbar, and also with the fact that search typically is more forgiving of a typo or slightly wrongly phrased request than the address bar is.


Michele T. - Nov 09, 2002 1:48:08 pm PST #1337 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Does everyone else see my tagline as way lower than it should be? WTF?


Rebecca Lizard - Nov 09, 2002 2:59:00 pm PST #1338 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

It looks normal to me, Michele. Did you try resizing the window?

Are you sure? Does the address bar history have all the pages you've read at buffistas.org, for instance?

Yup. Until the last-300-sites cutoff. And, to check, I just clicked on your profile, closed the window, and typed shaw into the address bar, and it suggested Shawn's profile, with the attached URL, to me.


Hil R. - Nov 09, 2002 3:03:05 pm PST #1339 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l