WARNING Junk e-mail . More
and more e-mails/adverts are either trying to get you to agree to terms
that mean you are automatically opted in or they try to get you to
leave your mobile number which means you agree to them sending you
texts at exhorbitant rates, again it's down to you to opt out. Most of
these sites are telling you, you have won or are about to win
something, Ipod, laptop, car etc... ALWAYS READ THE SMALL PRINT
and confine these crooks to the waste bin as JUNK. --
Tony Lowery 21 Feb 2010
Scammed by Domain Registry of
America. A client of mine has been hoodwinked into paying
thru the nose to change his website name registration by a letter which
appears to be an invoice. If you get such a letter then simply send the
envelope back empty without a stamp, they will have to pay postage.
Better still, if you have time take it to the police or local trading
standards organization. Do a Google search and see how many angry
people have been conned out of their cash - 6 Feb 2005
Domain Registry of America: We have
had a similar experience of junk mail from these people. We should
report them to spambusters or similar. -- DWK Alonso Jan 9th 2008
Sending files by Email. Avoid Files
Being blocked - If you wish to send program files by E-Mail, you can
rename the blocked file to include a temporary file type that is not on
the list of blocked file types. For example, you can rename program.exe
to program.txt -- Stephen Walden Portsmouth UK
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK;
I learned a computer trick today that's
really ingenious in it's simplicity. I received it from a friend. As
you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads
straight for your e-mail address book, and sends itself to everyone in
there, thus infecting all your friends and associates. This trick won't
keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will stop it
from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert you
to the fact, that the worm has gotten into your system.
Here's what you do; first, open your
address book and click on "new
contact",
Just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of
e-mail addresses.
In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in
AAAAAAA, Also use address AAAAAAA@a.aaa
Now, Here's what you've done and why it works: The name AAAAAAA will
be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This will be
where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your
friends.
But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA, it will be
undeliverable because of the phoney e-mail address you entered.
If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney
address),
the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great advantage of this
method: If an e-mail cannot
be delivered, you will be notified of this in your IN BOX almost
immediately. Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an
e-mail addressed to AAAAAAA could not be delivered, you know right
away
that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps
to get rid of it! Pretty slick, huh?
If everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about
opening mail from friends. Pass this on to all your friends. --
Julie
My first one is one that your
site could probably use. There are spiders (internet programs) which
collect email addresses by searching all web pages email addresses or
for a mailto: link. These are added to the CDs of "over a million
internet addresses" which are sent to spammers. A better idea now is to
use a form or CGI which does not have the email address on the html
page. Another option is to make your email address a gif image so that
it can be easily be read by real people but not automatic programs -- Gandalf
Parker
PC Safari?
Did you know that the browser used on the Apple can be loaded on the
PC? The cover flow feature you get on itunes has been carried over? It
makes it really swish, It will stay on my main machine. I will still be
using Chrome on my laptop but the visual quality and power of Safari is
unmatchable -- David Kellerman
DOS Web browsing:
If you have an older computer- or just want speed and no frills web
browsing - Opera software (http://www.operasoft.com)
have a web browser that does not use Windows. Another advantage
is that it is considerably less memory intensive -- Esmeralda
Magnifico
If you get an email warning you about some
virus or other problem and it urges you to "send this message to
everyone you know" (or something similar then it is almost certainly a
hoax.
When setting out to design your WebSite get
some post-it-notes, write down the names of the pages you need to start
with and stick them on a wall. You can then shuffle them around to
figure out the best way of linking them together. -- Emily Peck
Wimbledon England
Internet Tips :
7 R's BEFORE you forward a letter
READ IT! : Do you,
seriously, want your name on a hoax letter? Moreover, some are sent out
without being read (Ex. Researcher gets an inquiry and finds out it is
a true report just sent out)
REALITY CHECK - If it is a health warning
or a virus, you will hear about it on TV or read about it
RESEARCH - 25 yr old petitions are being circulated;
Congress passed a bill against tax n email in hopes of stopping
inquiries on the bogus chain letter;
REMEMBER - Forwarded emails can not be
counted/tracked.
REACHING - for your checkbook may be a reality as
higher user fees could result if server/provider has to increase
expense by buying more bandwidth.
RETHINK - before you add to a long list of
forwards (learn to cut and paste).
REALIZE - that continued sending of chain/hoax
letter could raise user fees (See SLOW DANCE at About.com) -- Hoaxbuster
- NanB20
Web Page Production The
Newbie Developer Building a website and you are using Microsoft Front
Page or even Publisher. Most of the time newbie developers like to use
these software because they offer easy to use wysiwyg templates. You
just wrote a 3 page word document and you want to make it a html
document for your new site.
Tip Well first of all I would suggest a web
master be hired, but if you have to do it yourself please just copy the
content into notepad first. Then you just copy and past it into the
html document with no formatting. Use CSS for formatting in HTML
instead of the <font> tag. I would consider using Macromedia
Dreamweaver as a development software to build your site. You will love
your self in the morning.
John Catalfamo Webmaster Albany Graphics.com
Search Engines are the single most
important means of getting your Website noticed, however doing it wrong
can get you chucked off for some time. We inadvertently used the
same word several times in a meta tag and it took us months to get back
our rating with one of the really important search engines. --
Adrian Dnes
The words you have used as
meta tag keywords should be included in the body of your text in
the headings -- Davie
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