The new software was designed to recognize
previous visitors and then show them pages
that they had shown an interest in before.
Instead, the site acted as a gatekeeper, granting
admittance only to those who had visited the
site prior to the software installation. Anyone
who tried to log on for the first time after the
installation received a blank page.

CNET

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 09, 2000