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From: "Gus Carroll" <>
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 99 11:31:52 CDT


Cookies are very useful little bits of data that identify you to web sites you visit regularly. They tell the computer at the other end that you are you and then the site adjusts itself to match YOUR preferences. They are very useful with email and some search engines out there where you customize them to match what you want.

The way the get on your computer is the site at the other end sends them to your browser and it saves them.

When you go to the site again, it asks your browser if it has a cookie for that site, if so your browser will send it to the site, the site will "think" Ah, it's Clara, let's set up the way she likes it.

Without the cookies, you would have to log in as a NEW USER EVERY TIME. That would be very inconvenient especially for a web email site.....

Hope the above gives you a bit of an idea of what cookies are and how they can be useful.

L8r,

Gus

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> Okay,
> I forgot to ask in my prior note a question about cookies. What are
> they? How do you obtain them What are they for and how do you use them ?
> Please use very simple terms as I said before that I am very new at the
> computer and no one is here in the day time to help me out as to terms and
> such. It is a little scary. I am always scared I am going to break or blow
> up this computer,. But, my sister reassures me that cannot happen. But, I am
> not all that sure. I blew upo my microwave once. Never bought another one.
> So baby steps please.
> Thanks,
> Clara J. Miller
> e-mail address-
>
> =20

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