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Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits Sept.21 2001	sheldene chant
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 NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS

Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net

 September 21, 2001 Vol.1 Issue.14

 Sheldene Chant, Editor
_______________________________________

By subscription only. Welcome to the 14th issue of

 Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits

You are receiving this newsletter because you
requested a subscription. Our subscriber list is
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end of this ezine
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IN THIS ISSUE

 o Time for a Break...

 o I Did It - at great cost, stresswise

 o Neat Tricks For Browsers

 o How To Make OE Sort Your eMail

 o Clearing Out Your Cache

 o What's a Cookie For Anyway?

 o Newbie Club Hot Tip - accessing Start

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TIME FOR A BREAK...
------------------------------------------------------------------

FORGIVE me if I seem somewhat web fixated in this
issue. When you've read ' I Did It ' you will understand
why.

This was supposed to be my triumphant 'go and look at
my web page' moment. That has been temporarily
denied me but then it's all a learning curve, remember?

With that in mind I've decided to share with you all the
frustrations, to date, and a few useful tips I've picked up
on the way.

Apart from Patrick Hale's advice about sorting your
email with Outlook Express the rest of the articles cover
issues related to browsers and the Net.

Richard Lowe Jr. talks about cookies and if you are
feeling slightly paranoid at the end of it go to Start, then
Find .Type in 'cookies', then click Find Now.

You'll probably be surprised by the number you have
accumulated. However don't go wild. Delete any you
really object to but take care that in doing so you don't
alienate those 'pages' where it suits you to be
recognised.

____________________________________

FREE TUTORIALS BY AUTORESPONDER

I can now offer you two useful Newbie Club tutorials by
autoresponder If you need to know more about
backing up 'stuff' on your computer click on
<mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com> and you
should get the first tutorial within seconds.

If you are thinking about making your own web page, or
merely want to exercise your brain slightly, then send for
the web page tutorials by clicking
<mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com>.

____________________________________

I DID IT ! - at great cost, stresswise...
____________________________________

I DID it! Finished my web page, which actually means
several pages, and nearly drove myself nuts in the
process.

It looks absolutely super (I think) and what if it did involve
much cursing and screaming combined with very little
sleep?

Unfortunately there has been a hiccup. I could send you
all the file so you could open it with your browsers (and I
probably would were it not for the fact that the Nimda
virus would make you afraid to do so), but to date I have
been unable to display it at newbiesandnitwits.com.

The host has organised this site so that writers can put
up a web page with minimum fuss - but unfortunately it
was not designed for pigheaded people determined to
do their own thing. To date over-riding the system has
proved difficult.

Initially I made this discovery when I had been awake
for 27 hours (just doing the finishing touches) so please
do not imagine it was accepted with anything
approaching equanimity. However since then the world
has been rocked by the Twin Towers tragedy, which
went a long way towards placing my major catastophe
in proper perspective.

Apart from that I've learned a lot, including the fact that I
can be incredibly stupid. 'Writing' the HTML code took
me days and I became so engrossed I forgot to save
my work frequently. Naturally that was when my
husband managed to trip the electricity supply - TWICE.

Then there was the four hours I spent looking for a non-
existent error, destroying most of my efforts during the
search. This happened because I noticed four of the
'links' were showing up in the 'wrong' colour. You
wouldn't believe how much damage I did before
realising I had visited those 'links' very recently, hence
the change of shade.

On the positive side I have collected several tips for
others who think straining one's brain is therapeutic.

I found the Newbie Club's Website Builder invaluable
(http://newbieclub.com/builder/?pearlsandpigs) and
would suggest anyone who wants to design their own
page starts here. In fact one could start and finish a
page working only with the information contained in
these eBooks.

However I actually constructed my page using The
HTML Editor, an excellent program which teaches you,
step by step, how to make a web page template.

In addition, using this software, one can work on one's
HTML code in one half of the screen, while looking at it
as a web page in the in the other half of The HTML
Editor viewer. Very useful when you are not too sure if
you are doing the right thing

From this program you can also view your work through
your default browser. I neglected to do this until the
page was almost completed and suffered a minor
trauma because it didn't look quite the same through
the 'eyes' of IE. Again with the help of HTML Editor I
was able to switch easily from code to browser. while
sorting the problems out. To find out more visit
http://sitetipsandtricks.com/thehtmleditor.html.

NoteTab Light, free software, is also an exceptionally
useful tool. I suspect I am not using 50 percent of the
features in this versatile program but I have learned it
can convert a text document to simple HTML at a click
of the mouse - or strip it of HTML if that's what you need.
Can save you hours.

When you install NoteTab on your PC it replaces MS
Notepad and you will be delighted you did so as it can
do so much more. (http://www.notetab.com)

Finally if you are toying with the concept of a web page,
studying the HTML code of pages which take your
fancy is very worthwhile. In Internet Explorer click View
then Source and the code will be displayed (in NoteTab
if you have installed it). If you also want a copy of the
actual web page click File (in IE) then Send, in order to
email the page to yourself.

Comparing the code with the page will keep you busy -
but a word of warning. It's not a good idea to pinch
someone else's ideas, without the webmaster's
permission, as you may be infringing copyright.

Hopefully my page will be up in the cyber sky before the
next issue of Newbies, Nerds and Nitwits comes out. If
not I will have to compromise - what a dreadful thought.

In the meantime start thinking HTML, tables and things.
This is fascinating stuff. It even beats doing
crosswords.

(c)2001 Sheldene Chant
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NEAT BROWSER TRICKS
by Tom Glander
____________________________________

IS your browser up to snuff?

How would you know?

By taking a peek under its hood, of course. This
peeking business applies to any program on your
computer.

To learn more about your browser, click the Help menu
item. Then click on About. That bit of information will tell
you all you need to know about the program you are
curious about.

You should be using a browser in the 5.0 or 4.7 model
range, if you're using Internet Explorer or Netscape.
There are many other browsers out there, but these are
by far the most popular.

Why use a later model? They're more versatile. They'll
display pages and the stuff on them easier and faster.
And if you're into printing web pages, Internet Explorer
has a great printing feature that lets you preview your
printed page first.

Here are a few tips:

**To open a new browser, hold down the Ctrl key and
press 'N'. A New window will open. You can have a
bunch of browser windows open at the same time.

**To visit a site you've typed into the address bar in the
past, click the drop down arrow to the right of the
address line. There will be a list of sites there.

**If you remember a site, but can't remember its
address, you can check your history. IE has a nice
history feature. Just click the History icon to start.

**To pop Internet Explorer open to full screen, press
F11. Press again to put it back where it was.

There are lots of things you can do with your browser.
The best thing you can do is explore its features by
clicking the buttons and menu items. Just click and see
what happens.

(c) 2001 The Newbie Club
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HOW TO MAKE OUTLOOK EXPRESS SORT
YOUR EMAIL FOR YOU
By Patrick L. Hale
______________________________________

THIS time saver will sort your incoming mail into
different folders for faster execution of replying to priority
messages, or simply sorting the trash from your main
'inbox' folder, making reading your email easier. The
more work your 'puter can do for you, the less work you'll
have to do.

Making and naming a new folder is a simple operation.
With O.E. Open, click 'File', then select 'New' from the
menu, then select 'Folder'.

Type the new folder's name in the text field, click 'OK'
and you've created your new folder . Be sure that you
have 'Inbox' highlighted in the left window panel when
you do this or else it will put your new folder in with the
wrong one, such as 'Drafts' or 'Deleted items;.

Now that you have a specially named folder to put
specific emails in, you need to tell O.E. what you want it
to do or rather, which folder you want it sorted into.

Making sure that you're in the 'Inbox' click the 'Tools'
option. Then select 'message rules' from the menu.
Then select 'Mail' from the sub-menu. When this window
opens, select 'New' from the options buttons.

A three window panel opens. In the top window you
select the 'Conditions' of your new message rule.

I'll give you a working example of a message rule that
you can refer back to as you follow the instructions,
making it easier to understand what's going on.

In each new issue of 2Liners & Tips I supply a new
address for subscribers to send their headline to. This
is sent to my Inbox folder named 'Headlines'

I tell O.E. where to put, which messages I want, in the
headlines folder by, selecting the condition (first
window) 'Where the subject contains specific words' - in
this case , the word 'Headlines'.

In the second window, I choose what action that I want
O.E. to take with my chosen 'email condition'. In this
case, I want it to 'move it to the specified folder'

Now in the bottom window you will see something like
this:

When the subject line contains 'Specific Words', Move it
to the 'Specified; folder. The words, 'Specific Words'
and 'Specified Folder' will be underlined as a hyper link.

Clicking the phrase 'Specific Words' will open a text
box, allowing you to enter your chosen words that
defines the particular subject line, in our example the
word is 'Headlines'. Then click OK to close.

Now click the link that says, 'Specified Folder'. A
window opens to a view of your mailbox folders, just like
the one you normally see in your left window pane.

Just click to highlight the folder ( in this example our
folder is the Headlines folder) that you wish the chosen
subject line to go to.

Now click OK, then OK again to close all out. In the
bottom window, the message (including hyperlinks) will
now read something
like this :

When the subject line contains the word 'Headlines'
move it to the 'Headlines' folder.

This may seem like a lot of work to begin with, but with a
few minutes spent familiarizing yourself with these
procedures, you can soon complete these actions in a
matter of only a minute or so.

There are several other 'Conditions' that you can
choose your email actions to perform, such as taking
email 'to' a certain address and sorting it into a certain
folder. But as this was rather lengthy, we encourage you
to spend a few minutes figuring this out and if you do
get 'stumped', I'll be glad to help you out.

Copyright 2001 Patrick Hale
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CLEARING OUT YOUR CACHE
Tom Glander explains
____________________________________

I SUPPLIED an autoresponder to a Member. There was
a problem on the page where she set things up. I fixed
the problem, and told her it was fixed.

She went to the web page and tried setting up her new
account. But she kept getting the same error. Why?

The answer was in her cache. Pronounced the same as
cash. Once she fixed her cache problem, she could
view the proper page.

When you view a web page, it is stored on your
computer. That store is your computer's cache. When
you go back to a page, your browser looks in the cache
to see if the page is there. If it is, it is displayed for you
right off your own hard drive.

It's faster that way to view a web page, since it doesn't
have to load via your slow modem connection.

But what if the page has changed, as in my opening
illustration? You won't see the new web page. You'll see
the old one stored on your computer. To be sure you're
seeing the latest pages, you can click the 'Refresh' or
'Reload' button. You can also hold down the Shift key
while clicking, to ensure you force your browser to open
the page from the server computer instead
of from your hard drive.

To clean out your cache so it's not taking up any extra
space (those web pages and graphics do take up some
space, and you should regularly clean out your cache)
do the following:

1. Open Control Panel: Start > Settings > Control Panel.

2. Double click on Internet Options icon.

3. Under Temporary Internet Files, click 'Settings'
button.

4. Click 'Delete Files' under the Temporary Internet Files
area.

You're done. All the temporary Internet files are
removed, and your cache is cleaned out.

Netscape users will need to go through their browser to
clean out the cache. And that's a totally separate issue!

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WHAT IS A COOKIE FOR ANYWAY?
asks Richard Lowe, Jr
______________________________________

WITH all of the rhetoric about cookies, many people
don't understand that these little text files were invented
for a reason. In fact, cookies were created to solve the
internet's equivalent of Alzheimer's disease.

You see, web sites do not remember who they are
talking to!

The web was designed to be simple and
straightforward. You (a browser such as Internet
Explorer or Netscape) ask for something from a web
server. The web server obediently hands it to you, then
goes off to do something else. This is due to the original
purpose of the web - a vast electronic library! The web
was never designed to support electronic commerce. It
was designed to support reading text. Images, videos,
sounds and commerce was all shoehorned into the
structure later.

Okay, so web servers are forgetful. What exactly does
this mean? The browser asks the web server for an
object (a web page, image, graphic or whatever) and
the server obligingly returns it. The connection to the
browser is then closed and forgotten.

Thus, the next time the browsers makes a request of the
web server, the poor server has no easy way to know
that it is the same as before. As far as the server is
concerned, every single request to do something is a
unique request from a different computer. This makes
any kind of transaction control very difficult.

Think about it for a minute and you'll understand. You
enter your personal information into a screen, which
sends you to a second screen to enter your name and
address. If the web server does not know that you are
you, then how in the heck does it relate the credit card
information to your name and address?

The answer is cookies. To put it very simply, a cookie is
simply a way for the web server to know that you are
indeed you. In the previous example, a cookie would
allow the server to know that the name and address are
related to the credit card number.

How does this work? Well, the server creates a small
text file on your system called a cookie. This text file can
only be referenced by that server, and it contains a
simple unique number which identifies you.

Whenever the server does something it tries to read this
cookie to see if it knows who you are. Thus, when the
screen allowing you to enter your name and address is
displayed, the browser tries to read a cookie, effectively
asking 'do I know who you are?'. It does the same thing
on the credit card entry screen.

Okay, this all seems harmless enough, doesn't it? So
how is this very harmless and exceptionally useful
system abused?

Cookies can be set to last until the browser exits, or
they can be set to expire (be deleted) far into the future.
Various advertising companies actively abuse this
feature - and this has led to the public backlash
against cookies.

You see, cookies can be created and read when any
object is loaded from a web server. This includes
banners and web bugs (small graphics designed to
help advertisers track who is looking at their ads).
The advertising companies take advantage of this
feature to set cookies on your computer so they can
build up a picture of what sites you've been
looking at. The banners effectively ask 'have I seen this
person (computer system) before?'

If the answer is 'yes' (a cookie exists), then a notation
is made in your profile on the advertisers computer
system. Believe me, it does not take long for an
advertising agency to build up a very nice understanding
of exactly what you do on the internet.

Why do they want to do this? To make more money, of
course. How does this work? An advertising agency
sells eyeballs. The theory they operate on is simple. The
more qualified the eyeballs, the more likely that banners
are to be clicked, and the more likely that sales are to
be made.

Thus, if you typically surf, say, Star Trek sites, you may
be interested in seeing advertisements about Science
Fiction movies, and theoretically you will be more likely
to purchase tickets.

Okay, why is this a problem? Do you really want an
advertising agency knowing everything about your web
surfing habits? Do you trust them? Do you think they will
keep this information private?

Or to put it another way, these companies are making
money (lots of money) based upon your eyeballs. They
are not sharing that money with you - in fact, they never
even asked your permission to gather information about
you.

As an analogy, suppose you were reading a magazine
on a park bench and someone was hiding in the tree
over your head, recording every page that you
looked at in a notebook. How long would you put up with
this behavior?

Thus, the public is simply objecting to the unethical use
of cookies to track their movements through the internet.
And as you can see, a very useful tool has been
corrupted by companies whose motives are suspect, to
say the least.

(c) 2001 Richard Lowe, Jr All Rights Reserved
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NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS 
Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net 
 September 21,
2001
Vol.1 Issue.14 

Sheldene Chant, Editor 
_______________________________________ 
By subscription only. Welcome to the 14th issue of 

Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits 
You are receiving this newsletter because you 
requested a subscription. Our subscriber list is 
confidential. Unsubscribe instructions are at the 
end of this ezine 
____________________________________ 
IN THIS ISSUE 
 o Time for a
Break... 
 o I Did It -
at great cost, stresswise 
 o Neat Tricks For
Browsers 
 o How To Make OE
Sort Your eMail 
 o Clearing Out
Your Cache 
 o What's a Cookie
For Anyway? 
 o Newbie Club Hot
Tip - accessing Start 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------ 
TIME FOR A BREAK... 
------------------------------------------------------------------ 
FORGIVE me if I seem somewhat web fixated in this 
issue. When you've read ' I Did It ' you will understand 
why. 
This was supposed to be my triumphant 'go and look at 
my web page' moment. That has been temporarily 
denied me but then it's all a learning curve, remember? 
With that in mind I've decided to share with you all the 
frustrations, to date, and a few useful tips I've picked up 
on the way. 
Apart from Patrick Hale's advice about sorting your 
email with Outlook Express the rest of the articles cover 
issues related to browsers and the Net. 
Richard Lowe Jr. talks about cookies and if you are 
feeling slightly paranoid at the end of it go to Start, then 
Find .Type in 'cookies', then click Find Now. 
You'll probably be surprised by the number you have 
accumulated. However don't go wild. Delete any you 
really object to but take care that in doing so you don't 
alienate those 'pages' where it suits you to be 
recognised. 
____________________________________ 
FREE TUTORIALS BY AUTORESPONDER 
I can now offer you two useful Newbie Club tutorials by 
autoresponder If you need to know more about 
backing up 'stuff' on your computer click on 
<<a href="mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:pearlsa-@fastresponder.com</a>>
and you 
should get the first tutorial within seconds. 
If you are thinking about making your own web page, or 
merely want to exercise your brain slightly, then send for 
the web page tutorials by clicking 
<<a href="mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:nerdsand-@fastresponder.com</a>>. 
____________________________________ 
I DID IT ! - at great cost, stresswise... 
____________________________________ 
I DID it! Finished my web page, which actually means 
several pages, and nearly drove myself nuts in the 
process. 
It looks absolutely super (I think) and what if it did involve 
much cursing and screaming combined with very little 
sleep? 
Unfortunately there has been a hiccup. I could send you 
all the file so you could open it with your browsers (and I 
probably would were it not for the fact that the Nimda 
virus would make you afraid to do so), but to date I have 
been unable to display it at newbiesandnitwits.com. 
The host has organised this site so that writers can put 
up a web page with minimum fuss - but unfortunately it 
was not designed for pigheaded people determined to 
do their own thing. To date over-riding the system has 
proved difficult. 
Initially I made this discovery when I had been awake 
for 27 hours (just doing the finishing touches) so please 
do not imagine it was accepted with anything 
approaching equanimity. However since then the world 
has been rocked by the Twin Towers tragedy, which 
went a long way towards placing my major catastophe 
in proper perspective. 
Apart from that I've learned a lot, including the fact that I 
can be incredibly stupid. 'Writing' the HTML code took 
me days and I became so engrossed I forgot to save 
my work frequently. Naturally that was when my 
husband managed to trip the electricity supply - TWICE. 
Then there was the four hours I spent looking for a non- 
existent error, destroying most of my efforts during the 
search. This happened because I noticed four of the 
'links' were showing up in the 'wrong' colour. You 
wouldn't believe how much damage I did before 
realising I had visited those 'links' very recently, hence 
the change of shade. 
On the positive side I have collected several tips for 
others who think straining one's brain is therapeutic. 
I found the Newbie Club's Website Builder invaluable 
(<a href="http://newbieclub.com/builder/?pearlsandpigs" eudora="autourl">http://newbieclub.com/builder/?pearlsandpigs</a>)
and 
would suggest anyone who wants to design their own 
page starts here. In fact one could start and finish a 
page working only with the information contained in 
these eBooks. 
However I actually constructed my page using The 
HTML Editor, an excellent program which teaches you, 
step by step, how to make a web page template. 
In addition, using this software, one can work on one's 
HTML code in one half of the screen, while looking at it 
as a web page in the in the other half of The HTML 
Editor viewer. Very useful when you are not too sure if 
you are doing the right thing 
From this program you can also view your work through 
your default browser. I neglected to do this until the 
page was almost completed and suffered a minor 
trauma because it didn't look quite the same through 
the 'eyes' of IE. Again with the help of HTML Editor I 
was able to switch easily from code to browser. while 
sorting the problems out. To find out more visit 
<a href="http://sitetipsandtricks.com/thehtmleditor.html" eudora="autourl">http://sitetipsandtricks.com/thehtmleditor.html</a>. 
NoteTab Light, free software, is also an exceptionally 
useful tool. I suspect I am not using 50 percent of the 
features in this versatile program but I have learned it 
can convert a text document to simple HTML at a click 
of the mouse - or strip it of HTML if that's what you need. 
Can save you hours. 
When you install NoteTab on your PC it replaces MS 
Notepad and you will be delighted you did so as it can 
do so much more.
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Finally if you are toying with the concept of a web page, 
studying the HTML code of pages which take your 
fancy is very worthwhile. In Internet Explorer click
View 
then Source and the code will be displayed (in NoteTab 
if you have installed it). If you also want a copy of the 
actual web page click File (in IE) then Send, in order to 
email the page to yourself. 
Comparing the code with the page will keep you busy - 
but a word of warning. It's not a good idea to pinch 
someone else's ideas, without the webmaster's 
permission, as you may be infringing copyright. 
Hopefully my page will be up in the cyber sky before the 
next issue of Newbies, Nerds and Nitwits comes out. If 
not I will have to compromise - what a dreadful thought. 
In the meantime start thinking HTML, tables and things. 
This is fascinating stuff. It even beats doing 
crosswords. 
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NEAT BROWSER TRICKS 
by Tom Glander 
____________________________________ 
IS your browser up to snuff? 
How would you know? 
By taking a peek under its hood, of course. This 
peeking business applies to any program on your 
computer. 
To learn more about your browser, click the Help menu 
item. Then click on About. That bit of information will tell 
you all you need to know about the program you are 
curious about. 
You should be using a browser in the 5.0 or 4.7 model 
range, if you're using Internet Explorer or Netscape. 
There are many other browsers out there, but these are 
by far the most popular. 
Why use a later model? They're more versatile. They'll 
display pages and the stuff on them easier and faster. 
And if you're into printing web pages, Internet Explorer 
has a great printing feature that lets you preview your 
printed page first. 
Here are a few tips: 
**To open a new browser, hold down the Ctrl key and 
press 'N'. A New window will open. You can have a 
bunch of browser windows open at the same time. 
**To visit a site you've typed into the address bar in the 
past, click the drop down arrow to the right of the 
address line. There will be a list of sites there. 
**If you remember a site, but can't remember its 
address, you can check your history. IE has a nice 
history feature. Just click the History icon to start. 
**To pop Internet Explorer open to full screen, press 
F11. Press again to put it back where it was. 
There are lots of things you can do with your browser. 
The best thing you can do is explore its features by 
clicking the buttons and menu items. Just click and see 
what happens. 
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HOW TO MAKE OUTLOOK EXPRESS SORT 
YOUR EMAIL FOR YOU 
By Patrick L. Hale 
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THIS time saver will sort your incoming mail into 
different folders for faster execution of replying to priority 
messages, or simply sorting the trash from your main 
'inbox' folder, making reading your email easier. The 
more work your 'puter can do for you, the less work you'll 
have to do. 
Making and naming a new folder is a simple operation. 
With O.E. Open, click 'File', then select 'New' from the 
menu, then select 'Folder'. 
Type the new folder's name in the text field, click 'OK' 
and you've created your new folder . Be sure that you 
have 'Inbox' highlighted in the left window panel when 
you do this or else it will put your new folder in with the 
wrong one, such as 'Drafts' or 'Deleted items;. 
Now that you have a specially named folder to put 
specific emails in, you need to tell O.E. what you want it 
to do or rather, which folder you want it sorted into. 
Making sure that you're in the 'Inbox' click the 'Tools' 
option. Then select 'message rules' from the menu. 
Then select 'Mail' from the sub-menu. When this window 
opens, select 'New' from the options buttons. 
A three window panel opens. In the top window you 
select the 'Conditions' of your new message rule. 
I'll give you a working example of a message rule that 
you can refer back to as you follow the instructions, 
making it easier to understand what's going on. 
In each new issue of 2Liners & Tips I supply a new 
address for subscribers to send their headline to. This 
is sent to my Inbox folder named 'Headlines' 
I tell O.E. where to put, which messages I want, in the 
headlines folder by, selecting the condition (first 
window) 'Where the subject contains specific words' - in 
this case , the word 'Headlines'. 
In the second window, I choose what action that I want 
O.E. to take with my chosen 'email condition'. In this 
case, I want it to 'move it to the specified folder' 
Now in the bottom window you will see something like 
this: 
When the subject line contains 'Specific Words', Move it 
to the 'Specified; folder. The words, 'Specific Words' 
and 'Specified Folder' will be underlined as a hyper link. 
Clicking the phrase 'Specific Words' will open a text 
box, allowing you to enter your chosen words that 
defines the particular subject line, in our example the 
word is 'Headlines'. Then click OK to close. 
Now click the link that says, 'Specified Folder'. A 
window opens to a view of your mailbox folders, just like 
the one you normally see in your left window pane. 
Just click to highlight the folder ( in this example our 
folder is the Headlines folder) that you wish the chosen 
subject line to go to. 
Now click OK, then OK again to close all out. In the 
bottom window, the message (including hyperlinks) will 
now read something 
like this : 
When the subject line contains the word 'Headlines' 
move it to the 'Headlines' folder. 
This may seem like a lot of work to begin with, but with a 
few minutes spent familiarizing yourself with these 
procedures, you can soon complete these actions in a 
matter of only a minute or so. 
There are several other 'Conditions' that you can 
choose your email actions to perform, such as taking 
email 'to' a certain address and sorting it into a certain 
folder. But as this was rather lengthy, we encourage you 
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CLEARING OUT YOUR CACHE 
Tom Glander explains 
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I SUPPLIED an autoresponder to a Member. There was 
a problem on the page where she set things up. I fixed 
the problem, and told her it was fixed. 
She went to the web page and tried setting up her new 
account. But she kept getting the same error. Why? 
The answer was in her cache. Pronounced the same as 
cash. Once she fixed her cache problem, she could 
view the proper page. 
When you view a web page, it is stored on your 
computer. That store is your computer's cache. When 
you go back to a page, your browser looks in the cache 
to see if the page is there. If it is, it is displayed for you 
right off your own hard drive. 
It's faster that way to view a web page, since it doesn't 
have to load via your slow modem connection. 
But what if the page has changed, as in my opening 
illustration? You won't see the new web page. You'll see 
the old one stored on your computer. To be sure you're 
seeing the latest pages, you can click the 'Refresh' or 
'Reload' button. You can also hold down the Shift key 
while clicking, to ensure you force your browser to open 
the page from the server computer instead 
of from your hard drive. 
To clean out your cache so it's not taking up any extra 
space (those web pages and graphics do take up some 
space, and you should regularly clean out your cache) 
do the following: 
1. Open Control Panel: Start > Settings > Control Panel. 
2. Double click on Internet Options icon. 
3. Under Temporary Internet Files, click 'Settings' 
button. 
4. Click 'Delete Files' under the Temporary Internet Files 
area. 
You're done. All the temporary Internet files are 
removed, and your cache is cleaned out. 
Netscape users will need to go through their browser to 
clean out the cache. And that's a totally separate issue! 
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WHAT IS A COOKIE FOR ANYWAY? 
asks Richard Lowe, Jr 
______________________________________ 
WITH all of the rhetoric about cookies, many people 
don't understand that these little text files were invented 
for a reason. In fact, cookies were created to solve the 
internet's equivalent of Alzheimer's disease. 
You see, web sites do not remember who they are 
talking to! 
The web was designed to be simple and 
straightforward. You (a browser such as Internet 
Explorer or Netscape) ask for something from a web 
server. The web server obediently hands it to you, then 
goes off to do something else. This is due to the original 
purpose of the web - a vast electronic library! The web 
was never designed to support electronic commerce. It 
was designed to support reading text. Images, videos, 
sounds and commerce was all shoehorned into the 
structure later. 
Okay, so web servers are forgetful. What exactly does 
this mean? The browser asks the web server for an 
object (a web page, image, graphic or whatever) and 
the server obligingly returns it. The connection to the 
browser is then closed and forgotten. 
Thus, the next time the browsers makes a request of the 
web server, the poor server has no easy way to know 
that it is the same as before. As far as the server is 
concerned, every single request to do something is a 
unique request from a different computer. This makes 
any kind of transaction control very difficult. 
Think about it for a minute and you'll understand. You 
enter your personal information into a screen, which 
sends you to a second screen to enter your name and 
address. If the web server does not know that you are 
you, then how in the heck does it relate the credit card 
information to your name and address? 
The answer is cookies. To put it very simply, a cookie is 
simply a way for the web server to know that you are 
indeed you. In the previous example, a cookie would 
allow the server to know that the name and address are 
related to the credit card number. 
How does this work? Well, the server creates a small 
text file on your system called a cookie. This text file can 
only be referenced by that server, and it contains a 
simple unique number which identifies you. 
Whenever the server does something it tries to read this 
cookie to see if it knows who you are. Thus, when the 
screen allowing you to enter your name and address is 
displayed, the browser tries to read a cookie, effectively 
asking 'do I know who you are?'. It does the same thing 
on the credit card entry screen. 
Okay, this all seems harmless enough, doesn't it? So 
how is this very harmless and exceptionally useful 
system abused? 
Cookies can be set to last until the browser exits, or 
they can be set to expire (be deleted) far into the future. 
Various advertising companies actively abuse this 
feature - and this has led to the public backlash 
against cookies. 
You see, cookies can be created and read when any 
object is loaded from a web server. This includes 
banners and web bugs (small graphics designed to 
help advertisers track who is looking at their ads). 
The advertising companies take advantage of this 
feature to set cookies on your computer so they can 
build up a picture of what sites you've been 
looking at. The banners effectively ask 'have I seen this 
person (computer system) before?' 
If the answer is 'yes' (a cookie exists), then a notation 
is made in your profile on the advertisers computer 
system. Believe me, it does not take long for an 
advertising agency to build up a very nice understanding 
of exactly what you do on the internet. 
Why do they want to do this? To make more money, of 
course. How does this work? An advertising agency 
sells eyeballs. The theory they operate on is simple. The 
more qualified the eyeballs, the more likely that banners 
are to be clicked, and the more likely that sales are to 
be made. 
Thus, if you typically surf, say, Star Trek sites, you may 
be interested in seeing advertisements about Science 
Fiction movies, and theoretically you will be more likely 
to purchase tickets. 
Okay, why is this a problem? Do you really want an 
advertising agency knowing everything about your web 
surfing habits? Do you trust them? Do you think they will 
keep this information private? 
Or to put it another way, these companies are making 
money (lots of money) based upon your eyeballs. They 
are not sharing that money with you - in fact, they never 
even asked your permission to gather information about 
you. 
As an analogy, suppose you were reading a magazine 
on a park bench and someone was hiding in the tree 
over your head, recording every page that you 
looked at in a notebook. How long would you put up with 
this behavior? 
Thus, the public is simply objecting to the unethical use 
of cookies to track their movements through the internet. 
And as you can see, a very useful tool has been 
corrupted by companies whose motives are suspect, to 
say the least. 
(c) 2001 Richard Lowe, Jr All Rights Reserved 
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