Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx doesn't track use for most sites

[Mouse]

> nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, newyorker.com (and many others) rely
> on users' browsers to keep track of the pages they have accessed so
> as to limit use.  Although lynx keeps cookies, it doesn't run the
> script (or whatever it is) that these sites use, thus one can browse
> them without limit.

And?  I'm not sure whether you're citing this as a feature, a bug, or
what.

Relying on the client to do _anything_ merely because the server asks
it to, though, is stupid design.  (Unless, I suppose, you don't really
much care and are satisfied with "it works in most cases", which may be
good enough here.)

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