Welcome to
the 4th edition, year 2, of Presidio Computer's Newsletter.
Vol
2. No. 4
A. General
Audience
1. What’s up
with winmail.dat? Some of you receive a
notice that, in addition to this newsletter, there are 1 or more
attachments. 1 of those attachments is
winmail.dat.
The
“winmail.dat” attachment is created because of the way the email message was
created.
View the
following links for more information.
http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1552hq.html
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/direct-l/winmail.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/MS_Office/Q_11591579.html
2. If you
have an interest in health care, you can receive, for free, Medscape.
http://www.medscape.com/px/registration/register
http://www.medscape.com/px/registration/updateemail
Before you
signup for newsletters, I suggest that you go to yahoo, excite, hotmail or some
other website that offers free email accounts.
Setup an email account there. Use
that account for your newsletter subscriptions.
Eventually, this account will be bombarded with spam, but at least you
don’t have to worry about your “real” email account being spammed merely
because you signed up for a newsletter.
When you
subscribe to an online newsletter, provide as little information about yourself
as possible. Be sure that you give them
a birth date such that you are over 21 years of age. But they don’t need to know your gender,
education level, occupation, address, phone number or other personal
information. They are gathering that
information for marketing purposes.
When
you are creating your email account, select a user name such as “jsmith_x89”
[without the quotes]. Use this user name for all of your
newsletters. Use the newsletter’s name
as your password. For example, if you
have a subscription to the LA Times, use “Latimes” [without the quotes] as your
password for that site. For Medscape,
use “medscape” for that site’s password [without the quotes]. That makes it easier to remember the
password.
I don’t
recommend that you use this password technique for your banking/financial
institution account, any site you use for online bill paying,
or other matters where financial information or personal information is
involved. In cases such as these, select
a cryptic password, such as Pa$sw0rd [the “0” is a zero, not an “oh”]. $un38Tuc is another example of a password
that will be difficult to crack. These
examples contain upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
The company
that provides the email account [your internet service provider, or one of the
free email services, mentioned above] may restrict your use of characters,
numbers and/or symbols.
3. New vs
old. May 2003, consumers purchased more
Laptop computers vs desktop PCs. Also,
more LCD [liquid crystal display] monitors were sold vs. crt
[cathode ray tube], the television set type of monitor.
4. Beginning
with Volume 3, No. 1, the Presidio Computer Newsletter will have some design
changes.
Reminder:
You can now access previous issues of the newsletter, from my website. When you visit www.presidiocomputers.com, no
cookies are placed on your computer.
As always,
Presidio Computers, is available to assist you with
any of the computer issues described above.
If you want
your name removed from this mailing list, please let me know. Your name is not
kept in an address book. Your name is neither shared with nor sold to anyone.
You will not receive any junk mail from Presidio Computers.
The
information contained in this newsletter is provided for informational purposes
only. No guarantees nor warranties are expressly given nor implied.
Happy New
Year!
Sincerely,
Ed Sloup
Presidio Computers, LLC
520 731 6446
www.presidiocomputers.com