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Computer Help Archive Section
Volume 1 - 2002
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Volume 1, Number 1
Email -
Software: Microsoft Outlook Express
Get deluged by lots of SPAM (junk e-mail) including some marketers that seem to send you something at least daily? Everyone does - here is something that will help. Once the junk mail arrives, click on it in the inbox to highlight it. Once it is highlighted go up to the pull down menu "message" - click it to drop the menu down and then click "block sender". From now on, when a message from that author arrives, it automatically is placed in your deleted items. Do this to any unsolicited email and it should cut down on what arrives in the inbox.
Volume 1, Number 2
E-mail Signatures -
Software: Microsoft Outlook
Express
Open your program and click the "tools" pull down menu. Click "options", when the box comes up note there are quite a few tabs at the top of the box. Click the "signatures" tab. There may be some areas of this signatures area that are check boxes - if you want the statement to apply, click in the box to the left (checking it). If you want to utilize an automatic (where you don't have to add it each time), click the box to the left of add to all messages (specific text may vary with version). Toward the middle of the box should be an area that has buttons on the right of it. If you want to add a new signature, click the "add" button. This should allow you to click in the bottom box (under edit signature) and place your signature text there by keyboard. Once you have your signature text in (I suggest no more than 4 short lines), click the "set as default" button to the right. Next, click the "ok" button at the bottom of this window. It will close and the next time you send (new) mail, your signature will appear in the blank message before you begin writing.
Volume 1, Number 3
Speeding your
surfing -
Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer
So many pages/sites you will visit have lots of photos and/or music, etc. (bells & whistles) that they take forever to load. If you are on a search for text and don't care about photos, music and the like, turn them off to speed your load time.
Here's what you do: Load Explorer and then click the pull down menu "tools", next click "(internet) options" (wording may be different for different software versions). Once a box pops up, you will click the "advanced" tab at the top of the box. This brings up a long list of things you can have work or disabled. You want to scroll down the list until you find the "multimedia" section. Several items in this section are checked. For fastest download, click each checkmark to de-select all "play" options. Next click the "OK" button at the bottom of the box. To check, hit the refresh button (button with white sheet with 2 green arrows circling each other). Please note that this may be done in reverse to get photos, etc back. Any type of multimedia you want to see, click the blank box (which will check it), click "OK" and then the refresh button.
Volume 1, Number 4
More tips about SPAM
Software: Microsoft Outlook Express
Let's revisit the SPAM problem. In past issues we pointed out how to block a sender. But what about all those folks who are sending from new addresses daily that are cluttering your inbox? You may want to apply a filter (a.k.a. message rule) or two to help manage what arrives. NOTE: This is also handy to pre-sort much of your mail.
So much SPAM is not addressed directly to you and the aid below will shunt these junk e-mails away from your inbox:
Load the program and click the pull down menu "tools" then drop your mouse down onto "message rules", this reveals a second menu out of which you will (slide over staying on message rules) click "mail". When a box appears you are going to click the "new" button on the right side of the box. This brings up a new box that helps you set your rule/filter. in the first window you are going to click the rule "where the to line contains people" this adds the rule to the bottom window. In the second/middle window I suggest you choose "move it to the specified folder". Next you are going to click the link in the bottom window (that has your new rule) "contains people". This brings up a box that you need to add all of the e-mail addresses (alias's) that you have coming into this box. Once all of your e-mails are in, click that box's OK button. Next, choose the "specified" link in the bottom window. This will bring up a box showing your e-mail program's structure. I suggest you make a filter file and select it then click OK. This will bring you back to the "new mail rule" box with your completed rule showing in the bottom window - click OK. Now, with the remaining box, click the "apply now" button and then OK. This will take any e-mail that is not addressed directly to you (including if you were a CC) and place it directly into your filter file. As you have time, clean out your filter file by blocking the SPAM and addressing any hapless emails that got caught there. My suggestion is to clean your filter no less than once a week.
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