Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:37:05 -0600

From: "Emerson, Jessie J" jjemerso[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INGR.COM

Subject: "cookies"



"Cookies" are files that are downloaded to your hard drive when you

connect to certain Web sites. These files contain your computer

information that the Web site has recorded. When you return to a site

that has loaded a "cookie" on your machine, the site can use your

"cookie" information for various and sundry site documentation purposes.



Internet Explorer has a folder called "Cookies". You can remove them if

it bothers you.



Jessie







Has "cookies"--that is, those crumbs that get left on your computer

after

various internet communications--been considered for WOTY?



Cynthia Bernstein

Auburn Univ.





Do you mean the downloaded copies of Telnet and what not that Web

sites

send you automatically--or something else?



Wayne Glowka