A Note To Klaus1 on Safari;  Cookies list ?

Many thanks for your help to a rank beginner who opened safari preferences for the first time. Of note:
Java and cookies were activated but cookies was limited to only from site to which you navigate and not from their advertisers. When I changed to "always" (sic suck up our ads charley or cease to exist) no problem for access. This leads to the next beginner's question. What are cookies? Where should I read about them? On the safari preferences list, how can the uneducated know what a particular cookie is and thus decide to keep or delete. I would not let hundreds of people walk through my flat. I'd lkie to keep my powerbook as clean as possible.

Hi Ophthalmo!
You can read more about cookies here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
I have mine set to only accept from sites I navigate to. Stuff their advertisers!
how can the uneducated know what a particular cookie is and thus decide to keep or delete. I would not let hundreds of people walk through my flat. I'd lkie to keep my powerbook as clean as possible.
I share your concern, and there is no point in keeping hundreds of cookies in your cookie cache. But some of them are invaluable, and enable fast log-in to regularly visited, and trusted, sites - like this one!
I use a small, free but excellent little app called SafariPlus, which you can get here:
http://web.mac.com/jrc/SafariPlus/
In that you can set which cookies you want to retain and which you want deleted the next time you shut down Safari. So I set it to keep cookies from Apple, the BBC, various forums I look at, and other news sites. All the rest that one accumulates during the day are deleted automatically.
Post back if that wasn't enough information!

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