Client-side cookies, or just 'cookies', are simply bits of information sent from a web page and stored by your browser (the 'client'). Each time your browser connects (e.g. when you click on a link) to the web page that sent the cookie, your browser sends it back. The information in the cookie usually concerns the status of your current session or preferences you have chosen in the past. Without these client-side cookies, a web site would have to store this information on the site and then would still need you to identify yourself somehow for each page you visited on the site, in order to match you with the corresponding information. Much more about cookies can be learned from cookiecentral.com(external link; opens a new window).
Each message board on BJ21.com uses a cookie to remember your most recent choice of how to display the message index (how many days-worth and what format). It also stores the name and email address you entered the last time you posted a message, and whether you wanted email notification of replies, so you don't have to enter these each time you compose a new message. Perhaps best of all, it keeps track of the time so that messages posted since your previous visit will be marked as being new.
There may be a chance, a remote one if you don't mess with the cookies on your computer, that the cookie
information could become corrupt. In this case you might have need to delete them all (see your browser help) but
if a problem with only BJ21.com is suspected you can try using the form below.
There also seems to be a rare situation where, after cookies have been set for several of the
message boards, some or all of the boards may become inaccessible. This seems to have happened in
two cases out of over a thousand members and subscribers, and may be due to bugs in rare browser
versions or to accessing the site through a corporate firewall. In this case, you should use the form below.
Pressing the "Set Generic Cookie" button will set a cookie that will tell the message board software, when you view a message board, to delete* the cookie for that board and in the future to use only a single cookie for all message boards. This workaround should be done only if needed, as your preferences will no longer be remembered individually for each message board. But it will allow you access to the message boards without having to affect other web sites by setting your browser to reject all cookies.
*Cookies actually can't be explicitly deleted, only set to expire. It depends on the design of your browser as to whether expired cookies are removed from your computer, but they won't be transmitted by the browser.
Return to Main Help Page without affecting your cookies.