Newsletter ArchiveSUBJECT:Stopping E-mail Harvesting - Speaking Bilingually The Internet 800 Directory - http://www.inter800.com The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter This issue is for Friday, April 18, 2003 Table of Contents 01. Stopping E-mail Harvesting 02. Speaking Bilingually 03. Tip Of The Week *01 Stopping E-mail Harvesting One thing that doesn’t seem to change, you increase your web site visibility and you increase the amount of spam you receive. Many spammers are using spiders as a powerful tool to examine the web for e-mail addresses. Search engines first created spiders to scan the Internet for web sites and then index the sites they found. Now these same programs have been modified to collect e-mail addresses. Because you must have your e-mail address posted in your web site, this has been a very effective method of harvesting e-mail addresses. Here is a way you can prevent these Spam Bots from collecting your e-mail address. Visit this site and enter your e-mail address. http://www.manastungare.com/asp/preventspam.asp Their script will conceal your e-mail so it can be read by the browser, but can’t be harvested by the bots (for now). Example: it turns this: Email Into this: Email It looks like gibberish, but the browsers can read it. If you have any thoughts or ideas you would like to share, please send them to Chuck Arning at chuck@inter800.com We’re Talkin’ Serious” Bone Suckin’ Sauce ! Winner: “Battle Of The Sauces.” Created in true western North Carolina style. Tomato based all-natural, sweetened with honey and molasses Half Gallon Size for 18.99+s/h. Toll-Free 1-800-446-0947 or online http://www.BoneSuckin.com *02 Speaking Bilingually (Is that a word?) Having grown up in West Texas, I was pretty accustomed to Spanish, having it force-fed to me beginning in the 7th grade, as it should have been. You also might notice that I capitalized the West as opposed to east, as all east Texans were actually run out of Louisiana by the Cajuns, if you can imagine Cajuns running out anybody. The South Texans were mostly of Mexican descent and there are no North Texans, just Okies. At any rate, in high school, I built steel buildings with the Oberbrockling brothers, who were of Germanic descent, and I roomed with a Mexican named Jesus. For those of you who have been fortunate to speak with me in person, you can imagine what the conversation sounded like. Jesus didn't speak a word of English, and my Spanish was probably worse. However, he taught me to sing "Alla En El Rancho Grande" and I taught him to sing "Your Cheatin' Heart". As a duet, we were kicked out of some of the best motels in Rankin, Texas. But that's another story. I called Jesus " Jeez - Us", as my preacher in the 1st Baptist Church always pronounced it. His name was Dr. Winfred Moore. He would say, "JEEE-sus", because he was from Tennessee or Kentucky or some place like that. However, as you bilingual people will know, a" J" and a "G" in Spanish is pronounced as an H, or as a British "h", which means that it's non-existent. Go figure. Therefore, Jesus is "Hay-suse" in Spanish. George is "Hore-hay", which is actually prettier than just plain "George" (with all of my apologies to all of the unfortunate people name George around the world.) Living for the last 13 years in New Mexico, I've learned to spot a Yankee, or someone from Sweden, right away, when they order "Gwak - a moley". It's "whock-a-moley", gringo. It's a dead give-away. Another is "tortiilla". It's 'Tor-ee-yah', Poncho". Whoops. I just crossed over into the double Ls. All double Ls are pronounced like a "Y". As an example, "Amarillo?" is pronounced, "Äm-a-ree-yo", in Spanish, which also means "yellow". That leads to one of my original sayings, which I like to repeat to various longhaired animals, "Como se lama, llama?" I digress. Today I went to deposit a check to cover my IRA 4/15 payment. The beautiful Hispanic teller informed me that I had incorrectly written out the amount as opposed to the dollar amount I had written in the character space. Since I had written the check to myself, signed by myself and endorsed by myself, I said that I would just change it and initial it. Obviously, nothing is ever that simple. She requested that I go inside to resolve it, whereupon I was introduced to Joe Perez (last name changed to protect the innocent). I said, "Holla, Hoe”, attempting to be jocular. It was not well received; I had to write a new check. Evidently the vernacular acceptance of the word 'hoe' has created a new bilingual language that I don't speak. What the heck, either one of those checks probably bounced anyway, regardless of the language. Guess I'll read another Smithsonian. 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Save Your Work Saving your document is a sensible precaution against power outages and blue screens of death. Use Ctrl + S or click the “Save” button on the Standard toolbar. Word can be instructed to automatically save your work every so often. Open the Tools menu, select “Options”, click the “Save” tab, and check the 'Save AutoRecovery Info Every' box. You can specify an interval from 1 to 120 minutes. Quick Movement To move to the top of a document, hit “Ctrl + Home”. To move to the bottom of a document, hit “Ctrl + End”. To go to the top of the next page, hit “Ctrl + Page Down”. For the top of the preceding page, hit “Ctrl + Page Up”. Select Entire Sentence To select an entire sentence just hold down the “Ctrl” button and click once on the sentence. Select Entire Document Just hit “Ctrl + A" If you have any tips or shortcuts that you think the readers of this Newsletter will find useful, send them to sjackson@inter800.com Banners? Pay-per-click? 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