Re: Cookies - not the edible kind

["Chris Blanc" <technical -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 5/8/07, Michelle Vina-Baltsas <Michelle_Vina-Baltsas -at- datascope -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm writing a passage that relates to Windows cookies.  For those of you
> who've had to document anything related to cookie(s), did you indicate the
> term cookie? If not, what did you use instead?

Here's a paraphrase of what I used:

The first time you log in to the server, it will submit a digital
token, or "cookie," to your browser which will be stored on your
machine. Each time the server sees this cookie again, it will consider
you to be logged in.

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