This is the text of a letter sent on 19th Oct 1997 to The Electronic Telegraph who since the time of writing seem to have ceased to use cookies

Open e-mail to our friends at

Recently whenever I connect to your main page via http://www.telegraph.co.uk/, I get two (2) requests from the infamous ad.doubleclick.net for me to accept a cookie.

I don't like cookies that have to do with advertising data gathering, the very idea of them means that I will stop visiting that web site. So,

Question 1:
Now that you have my true identification (and you always have had), why the cookies gentleman?

Question 2:
Any suggestion to automatically say "no" to cookies of my choice?

Cookies are one of those thing up with which I will not put, for too long. You can also find this e-mail on my web page, I may be in the process of an anti-cookie campaign.

Yours sincerely John Dukes.