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  • September 07, 2000 Email: General Delivery and Forwarding

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Email General Delivery and Forwarding
Are you tired of change of address? 
When you consider an email address it may be helpful to consider...

Some questions are...Can I keep the address forever?  How do I get my mail when I am out of town? What happens if I change ISPs? Can I make the address meaningful?

When choosing an email service other than with your ISP, keep the following in mind. 

With Snail Mail you have FORWARDING and GENERAL DELIVERY options, if you are going out of town for a time and/or moving.

For instance, if you are making a two month trip to Lopez, Washington for the rainy season you can:

• Let you mail stack up in Beeville
• Forward it to a specific address, if you know where you are going to be staying
• Have mail sent to the Lopez Post Office General delivery.

Many FREE EMAIL services force you to go to their site to pick up your mail after providing the proper identification. GENERAL DELIVERY is good but has limitations. 

Other FREE EMAIL service allow you to configure you email for both 

• GENERAL DELIVERY or going to their site to pick up your mail and
• FORWARDING by allowing you to configure the free service to forward you mail to any email address. anywhere in the world

Consider:

• You Change ISP: 
  You have an email address with "You Are Special ISP" in Beeville --> Number1@YourAreSpecialISP.com 
  
  If you change ISP's because another ISP is cheaper...you are forced to send a change of email address to all your friend. Three weeks later, "Mega-Merger ISP" comes to Beeville. They charge 1/2 what the cheapest ISP in Beeville charges. You need to now change your email address to the new ISP. 
  
  There is a way to prevent this, cycle of changing addresses-->Use a Free Email service that allows you to have an email address on their mail server that is FORWARDED automatically to the email address with your ISP. Or, go to the FREE EMAIL SERVICE's web site and check your mail
  
• You are going to be out of Beeville for an extended visit.
  You are going to Lopez, Washington for a  visit. Your brother has an email address with a local ISP in Lopez. If you are using a free email service with FORWARDING, you
  • go to the free service's web page
    • Sign in 
    • Configure the FORWARDING address from you local ISP to the address in Lopez.
  • Now, all mail using the FREE EMAIL SERVICE is automatically forwarded to Lopez 
    • and you will receive you mail when the person in Lopez checks his mail.
  • Or, you can configure the FREE SERVICE to be General Delivery and use the ISP connection in Lopez to go to the web site and check your mail.

If you have an email address with one of the many free email services, and if 

• all your friends use this address, 
  • when you changes ISPs 
  • Go on a trip
• all your friends would not have to change their email address books.

Get an email address from a FREE EMAIL SERVICE early on in you Internet experience and you should NEVER have to send mail to family and friends requesting them to change their email address books.

July 18 Five Rules for Web Shoppers
Despite the problems, you can still shop on the Web without too much need for concern. Follow these five common-sense rules for all your online purchases and avoid headaches later on.

• DON'T USE DEBIT CARD
• TRY ESCROW OR C.O.D
• AVOID ANONYMOUS BUSINESSES
• BEWARE OF TOO-GOOD-TO-BE-TRUE
• STICK TO NAME BRANDS

from Dealing With a Dead Dot-Com If your favorite e-commerce site has hit the skids, here's how to emerge from the crash with your wallet unscathed. 
by Carla Thornton July 14, 2000  (From PCWorld.com Beginning of article)

June 12 Firewalls

You and Your Computers Are You Safe?  From the Bad Guys Prying Eyes

Firewalls are programs that help protect you from those who will pilfer inside YOUR COMPUTER.  The link below provides insight into "Fire walls." What? When? How? I have used the Zone Alarm for a while and it definitely  has caught a few intruders. Read what Steve Gibson's Shield's Up and determine if you want/need a Firewall. Firewalls as with many aspects of computers require some education. If you will read and/or print his articles in Shields Up, you will have a start at least in educating yourself.  As a reference, PC World have a direct links to Gibson Research and Zone Alarm

  http://www.pcworld.com/heres_how/article/0,1400,17012+1+1,00.html   

Beeville.Net does not have any connection with Gibson Research or Zone Alarm other than:  

• We have known about and used Steve Gibson's SpinRite in the past. 
• We downloaded and installed Zone Alarm. 

Five Laws Every PC Owner Should Know Knowing your rights can give you added leverage when you get into a scrape with a vendor, a credit card company, or an Internet pest: 1) Credit Card Billing Problems, 2) Mail Order Online Shopping,  Rebates, 3) Warranties, 4) Privacy Protection for Children, 5) Spam Overload.  by Roberta Furger  (From PC World Beginning of article)

• Credit Card Billing Problems
• Mail Order, Online Shopping, Rebates
• Warranties
• Privacy Protection for Children
• Spam Overload

• The FBI Advisory is posted at http://www.nipc.gov/nipc/advis00-038.htm
• The Symantec alert (called Bat.CHODE.worm) is posted at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bat.chode.worm.html
• The McAfee alert (called W95/Firkin.worm) is posted at http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98557
• The Global Incident Advisory Center has reports from people who have computers that have been damaged. It is posted at www.sans.org/giac.htm.

Go to http://www.sans.org/newlook/alerts/911worm.htm for details.