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This issue is for Friday, June 18, 2004
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Table of Contents
01. Spam Lists
02. Singing In Church
03. Tip Of The Week
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*01 Spam Lists

This week the FTC reported to Congress that creating a no-spam list
would in fact lead to more spam in our e-mail boxes. Maybe they are
starting to figure out that most of the problematic e-mails don't come
from legitimate companies. Elusive hucksters that send their e-mail from
unprotected third parties or servers overseas are creating this crisis.
The no-spam list would become just another list of possible targets for
the unlawful to apply their trade.

It's a fact of life on the Internet that any address you make public is
going to get spammed. To conduct commerce online you must make your
business address public and for now, deal with the Spam. For these types
of accounts a spam filter is a must, however personal accounts are
another story. It is possible to keep these types of addresses private
and off e-mail lists. The fewer lists you are on the less unwanted
e-mails you will receive.

Many Internet sites now require you to log on to view their content or
download software. This usually involves filling out a form and giving
them your e-mail address and some personal information.  Here are a
couple of web sites that can help you keep your personal address off
those types of lists.

http://www.bugmenot.com/
This site was created as an instrument to quickly bypass the login of
web sites that require registration (only free sites not paid sites).
So, if  you want to visit a site that requires a logon, this site will
provide you with one and you don't have to give out your e-mail address.
There is even a plug-in for Foxfire making it as easy as one click.

http://www.mailinator.com/
With this site you make up a username (up to 15 characters) and added it
to mailinator.com.  This address then becomes your temporary e-mail
address. The accounts are created as the mail arrives for them, making
it possible to use any username. You then visit the web site type in
your username and read any e-mail in the box. Please note, the
Mailinator email inboxes can be read by anyone. There is no security! If
someone knows (or guesses) the email address, they can read its mail.

Both of these sites can help you keep from giving out your e-mail
address, when it's not needed.

Chuck Arning at chuck@inter800.com
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*02 Singing In Church


My wife was brought up in a parochial school in Houston, and I was
brought up in a public school in Amarillo and attended the 1st Baptist
Church. I knew nothing about Catholics, except that my best friend was
one and I went once to a mass. I thought they misspelled it, and I also
thought that they needed kneepads. My wife knew nothing about Baptists,
except she thought that I would do cartwheels, scream "Amen!", every 30
seconds and couldn't dance.

Come to find out, neither one of us was right. (Except maybe for the
dancing part, but it wasn't because I was Baptist - just a loose-ankle
WASP).

I'm going to leave out the next 30 years of details, but now my wife is
a Methodist, as am I, and my father-in-law is a converted Catholic. My
Jewish friends would mutter, "Go figure".

At any rate, I went to church last Sunday with my wife, and as always,
found that when we were to sing the hymns that they had published (in
the little pamphlet they give you so you won't lose your place), that I
had never heard of the song. I have to stop here, because the Baptists
have the best Christian songs in the world - like "Onward Christian
Soldiers" and "He Lives", while the Methodists have stuff like… like…?
Even, the Presbyterians, whom my devout Presbyterian friend calls "The
Frozen Chosen", sing Baptist songs. At the risk of getting
excommunicated, so do the Catholics.

At any rate, my wife did not have on her glasses and I offered to hold
the songbook, and did so at arm's length. As we were singing, I read the
words "until the moon shall wax and wane no more." except that what I
saw was "until the morons shall wax and wane no more.", which made
perfect sense to me, except that I started laughing. My wife, who has a
terrific sense of humor, or we wouldn't have lasted this long, started
laughing too. Actually she believed that I was laughing because she
couldn't see the words, which was probably a good thing.

While I was trying to tell her about what I was laughing about, without
creating another commotion about which to be thrown out of church again,
the phrase, "bring honors peculiar to our King", suddenly appeared and
now my wife is in semi-hysterics. Not only because that is a strange
lyric, but because my father, who is from West Texas, uses "peculiar" a
lot, and says it funny. He'll say, "That guy is just kinda
pe-quuuerler.", with the accent on the quuue.

I guess what I was trying to relate is that it takes us a lot of things
just to survive in these times, as it always has, but humor is the most
important and it is welcome anywhere.

Steven Jackson - saj@inter800.com
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Tip of the Week

As many of you know the browser I prefer is Foxfire
(http://www.mozilla.org/), but for those of you still using Explorer,

Some Explorer Tips:

Switch to Full Screen
-Press F11 key to turn Full Screen view on and off.

Hide and Show the Toolbars
-Right-click on any toolbutton or menu command at top of screen.

Make Toolbuttons-Large or Small, With or Without Text
-Right-click on any toolbutton or menu command at top of screen. In the
shortcut menu, choose customize.

Choose your Default Font Size
-Click "View", then "Text Size".


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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