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This issue is for Friday, February 06, 2004
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Table of Contents
01. E-mail Hell
02. Navy Beans and Ham
03. Tip Of The Week
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*01 E-mail Hell

Last Wednesday, brought us all a new virus (Mydoom) and with that virus
came tons of e-mail. This is a real problem for those of us that use the
Internet in our profession.  Because the more people you work with
online, the more people have your e-mail address in their machines.  If
your address is in an infected machine, you're going to get e-mailed the
virus over and over till they remove the virus or February 12 (the day
the virus stop e-mailing itself). But that's not all, because the virus
spoofs the sender using that same list; we are getting returns for bad
addresses and my favorite, "You Have Sent Me A Virus Notice". These
types of virus have been spoofing the sender for years, so why are virus
protection programs still sending this notice. It's just adding to the
problem.

Just how big a problem is Mydoom? According to mi2g Intelligence Unit
(mi2g.net) by January 29 the damage had already exceeded $19 billion
worldwide. The people that created this virus should to be found and
punished. What about the people with the infected machines? Shouldn't
these people also be held accountable? If this were some new type of
attack, it would be understandable to have this level of infection. Fool
me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

This, however, is not the only problem I'm having this week with junk
e-mail. One of the Offshore Pharmacy companies has decided to spoof our
domain as the sender for their spamming campaign. So this company, with
their server located in China, is sending millions of e-mails using our
domain as the sender.  Fortunately it's easy see this is happening and
no responsible individual or ISP blames us for the spam. Still I'm
receiving thousands of bounce reports, requests to be removed and
threats from clueless end users. Because of spoofing in both spam and
Mydoom, I'm dealing with over 10,000 extra e-mails a day. Welcome to my
e-mail hell.

Chuck Arning at chuck@inter800.com

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*02 Navy Beans and Ham

I can write a serious, succinct piece for this newsletter and I don't
even get e-mail from my Mother. (And I'm an only child!)

On the other hand I can write a stupid piece about an even stupider
parakeet and I get dozens of responses.

What's the matter with you guys? Chuck and I actually think about these
newsletters. Take what follows as an example:

I happen to make the greatest Navy bean soup in the world, although the
bag says "Small Northern Beans", which may have something to do with the
Navy, being from the North and fairly small at that. In fact, since I
used to make them a lot (Pre-Atkins Diet), I used to have a lot of
requests for the recipe. But somehow they were never quite the same as
when I used my antique pot and the careful measurements, which generally
consisted of tossing certain ingredients into that pot, using advanced
techniques such as a hook shot or an old, but effective, underhand lob.

Anyhoo, I just opened a can that I had frozen which reads "Navy Beans -
1/10/03" on the masking tape I always mark food with. (I think that's
03.) They should be fine as they aren't blue and gray, which is the most
positive way of telling, according to the pieces of my Fannie Farmer
Cookbook I have left.

Nonetheless, I heated up the beans and ham, and my wife still opted for
a can of chili, dated 2/03, if I didn't invert the numbers. (Note to
myself - use a marker that doesn't blur in the hot water thaw process.)

After I found the crackers, deftly brushing off the green stuff, which I
took for basil, I gently heated up the beans, ignoring the smoke alarms
because the neighbors moved out a month ago. As complex and overpowering
that the aroma was, with the many spices and ham hocks and onions and
whatever, I could hear my wife opening the garage door. She must have
not been hungry, or maybe she had an errand to run. (I've got to remind
her that peeling out in the driveway leaves tire marks.)

Well, after I gave that freak parakeet a tablespoon full, I decided that
they were ready, despite his weird flopping around. Mouth-to-mouth on a
parakeet requires a certain amount of pucker, I might add.

Back to the issue at hand, or palette, I might say, I dove into a bowl.
They might have been a tad off, shall we say, as I noticed that my wife
had returned and was looking at me with a scarf tied around her face
like a bank robber. All she said was, "Don't eat those stupid. They're
probably bad."

Hmmph! They were great. And anyway, if I'm going to die, I might as well
be full.

Steven Jackson - sjackson@inter800.com

Once every second someone searches the Internet 800 Directory looking
for someone to supply them with goods or services.

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Tip of the Week


Here are a few keyboard shortcuts for Internet Explorer 6
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Tired of typing http:// and .com when typing in the "Address Bar"

Try this, just type the domain then hit "CTRL+ENTER"
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Need a quick way to close those pop ups?
Hit:  CTRL+W
This will close your current window.
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Want a quick list of your last few sites?
Press: F4
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To move forward
Click: ALT+RIGHT ARROW
To move back
Click:  ALT+LEFT ARROW
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Want to jump back to the top of a page
Hit "Home"
Want to jump to the bottom
Hit: End
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Need to refresh the page
Hit: F5
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To move between full-screen and regular views
Hit: F11

If you have any tips or shortcuts that you think the readers of this
Newsletter will find useful, send them to chuck@inter800.com

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