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Fleece the net newcomerJudging by the number of spams I am receiving on how to market to internet newcomers - it would appear that someone has declared open season. No harm in marketing or helping, but spam implies rip-off! If you are such a newbie - save yourself a lot of grief and just send all your spare cash to me, my bank details are BSC = 12 34 56 account 12345678. Otherwise you can take a few common sense and simple precautions. Even on the net there is no such thing as a free meal (unless you are the free meal!), if something is free or a very good deal stop and think 'what is in it for them?' ask yourself are you the bee after the pollen or the fly in the venus fly trap. I am still trying to work out why someone promising me lots and lots of money - instantly and without any effort on my part, wants me to send them money up front. Would it not save a lot of admin if they just sent me my profits after deducting their cut?
Paranoia.I'm not paranoid, it's just that I know the world is out to get me, and I can provide copies of a dozen or so emails with the happy99.exe virus attached to prove it. If you think it safe to get out of bed in the morning and wish to continue in this happy delusion please skip to the next section. It is a fact that there are low-lifes out there that would love to trash your PC and cause untold damage, otherwise who else is writing all those viruses. There are a number of legitimate web sites that will ask you for the address of a file on your hard disk and then upload that file. (banner exchanges are an example). So, unless I am mistaken, all a web site needs to know is the name of a file on your hard disk to be able to read that file! OK you may need to click on a button, but who would suspect an innocent sounding button named something like 'Don't Panic - Click Here'? Have you noticed that in internet explorer when you enter a password
it is remembered. The next time the password is required it is entered
for you automatically, really useful. I would guess that there is a
file somewhere on my computer with all these passwords neatly stored
and ordered. OK, the info is probably encripted, but would you like
every tom dick and harry reading this file?
Cookies, are very useful things a webmaster can use to store information about you on your PC. Cookies are often used by affiliate logging systems to log who introduced a visitor, Cookies can also can be used to store your password to save you bothering to reenter it every time you visit a particular web site. Cookies can be used to store your name and the last time you visited a web site - very useful when used to display information that has changed since your last visit. Cookies can also be used to store your purchases while you are using a shopping cart. We are assured that cookies can only return information to the web site that has set them. So allowing them to be set should be quite safe, and the web sites that you have visited are a private matter between you and the website. But try the following three urls from different websites: Get your own cookie from me at Now go to a totally different web site, say And finally goto another totally different website feedback and questions and comments to Junk Email and Junk FaxesI have just received a junk email with an invitation I have just started a Helpline DigestFrom time to time I am asked for advice about the internet, web sites etc. Any interesting questions and answers are reproduced below. The names of the innocent and the guilty have been disguised. Helpline Digest - Search Engines I used your advice and added my website
to the search engines using Can I add further pages in my web site
to the search engines I have been advised that it is bad practice
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When using Front Page it is easy to create pages with spaces in the
web page address. This can cause problems, for example Boat%20Hire.htm
does not look very nice while Boat Hire.htm can be confusing,
especially if mentioned in an email, better to call it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Helpline Digest - Email TipsWhen sending a web site address make it clickable by putting the address
on a separate line and preceding it with http:// and never put a full
stop at the end of a web address. so instead of " look at www.amcho.com.
" use Please look at ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Helpline Digest - FeedbackPlease send your comments and questions to mailto:helpline@amcho.com Your question and reply may be reproduced in a future newsletter. The names of the innocent and the guilty will be disguised. .co.uk domainsIf you are in the UK and want your own domain it would appear that most (all?) three letter domains have gone. There are still lots of 4 letter domains remaining, for example: AAAB.CO.UK AAAC.CO.UK AAAF.CO.UK AAAG.CO.UK AAAJ.CO.UK AAAK.CO.UK are all available. You can check if your name has gone at http://www.amcho.com/domaincheck.htm and then reserve it at http://www.amcho.com/domainregfull.htm from 25 pounds plus VAT for two years for .co.uk or 50 pounds plus VAT for two years for .com or for 250 pounds plus VAT we will create your website and host it for a year. Price includes three web pages optimised and submitted to search engines, domain registration and all naming fees for one year. Just send us your brochures with an initial deposit of 50 pounds and we will do the rest for you. © 2000 Amcho Computer Services Ltd. All rights reserved. Feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone you want to. but please check with us before reproducing the content, normally all we will ask is a link to our website. All feedback is welcome: mailinglist-feedback@amcho.com To unsubscribe please send an email to unsubscribe@amcho.com To subscribe please send a blank email to mailto:subscribe-mailinglist@amcho.com Mike Choroszewski Amcho Computer Services Ltd Little Honeycombe, Tamar Way, Gunnislake, Cornwall, Pl18 9DH. UK phone: 08707 41 40 50 UK National Rate fax: 0870 124 6863 UK National Rate www.amcho.com/newsletters/
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