Internet Tip of the Week

by Bob Osgoodby

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In this Issue

** Internet Tip of the Week by Bob Osgoodby – Toll Free Numbers

** In the News – Storm Worm e-mail virus

** Computer Security Tips by Syd Tash

** Biz-Tips by Dr. Kevin Nunley - Try, Try Again

** Humor to Start the Weekend – Death and Taxes

** Something to Think About by Jan Tincher

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AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet
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Internet Tip of the Week
by Bob Osgoodby

Best Investment You Could Make

Did you know there is software available for about a hundred dollars, which will allow you to automatically submit your ads to web sites that accept free ads, and to newsletters that do likewise? This software will submit any number of ads you wish, in any frequency you desire.

"Wow - what a great idea!" you might think.  I can submit my ads to thousands of these sites with a single keystroke.  "What a time saver!"

Some people send out a dozen or more like this everyday.  Is this doing them any good? Well maybe yes, and maybe no.  Let's first examine the different types of web sites that accept free ads, and why.

Many web sites that accept free ads, do it purely to collect email addresses, which they can then sell as targeted lists. They don't really care if your ad is ever seen.  In fact, many have a high limit of 300 ads.  When the next one is submitted, the oldest is dropped, and the process continues.

With thousands of ads submitted hourly, how long do you think your ad will remain on their site - a minute or two - hardly worth your time.  The flip side is you will suddenly find a lot more unsolicited email arriving daily from those who bought your address.  If you like receiving unsolicited email, I guess this is good. “What do I care” you might think, “I’ll just get a throw away address from Hotmail” and submit it from there. Or, better yet, I’ll just give them a phony address – at least my ad is still out there.”

These “email factories” don’t care if you give them a phony address. If mail is returned as undeliverable they simply delete the address, and your ad won’t be seen anyway.

Other web sites do care if your ad is seen. So what is their motive?  They are trying to build an advertiser base, and hope you will purchase a paid ad from them.  Ads submitted to sites like this usually have a life of a week or more, and can be renewed indefinitely.  Their goal is to attract people to their site and hope that you do business as a result of your ad.

The first group couldn't care less if you send them multiple email addresses on a frequent basis - they never see the ads. Their software automatically collects your email address, checks for duplicates, and adds it to their file.

The second group however, and all newsletters published on a regular basis that allow free ads, are a different story.  When they receive ads, each one is checked manually. They usually only permit one ad per cycle, and if you submit 7-12 ads a day, you will quickly overwhelm their processing capabilities.  To them, this is spamming.  Their only recourse is to "fight fire with fire".  What they do is automatically filter out the ads submitted using this type of software.  They will never see your ad submissions.

And, when you submit an ad, if you submit a phony email address, their acknowledgement to you will be returned as undeliverable. At this point, several things happen. First your ad goes away, never to be published. The email address you used is permanently blocked and usually a filter is created with your contact information such as your website.

If, for example, your website address was www.mynewcompany.com/yourname a filter is created that rejects any ad with www.mynewcompany.com – so what has happened here? First you will never be able to submit an ad for that web site, and neither will anyone else. The filter doesn’t care what follows www.mynewcompany.com and will delete anything that contains that URL regardless of what follows it.

So what does this automatic submission software do for/to you. In the first example, your ads might have a useful life measured in minutes.  In the second case your ads are "blocked" from the sites that will produce your best results.

Once you are blocked (depending on how they do it) you may never be able to submit ads to these quality sites again - even if you do it manually.  Some block at the email address level.  Once an address is blocked, their filters will automatically delete your incoming email, whether it is an ad or not.

Maybe that automatic submission software isn't the best investment you could make.

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In The News

Circuit City and Napster will offer iTunes alternative

Retail chain Circuit City and Web music service Napster said Friday they will jointly offer a subscription service with millions of songs, the latest effort to compete with Apple's iTunes music store.

The new service will begin on April 29 with a subscription cost of $14.95 per month. Consumers will also be able to buy individual songs at 99 cents each.

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Stupid Quotes

"If people get a kick out of running down pedestrians, you have to let them do it."

- Paul Jacobs, marketing director for a video game company

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Listen As You Go

Select one of our Audio Books, new releases and age old favorites, pay online and burn a CD or download to an MP3. Giving away an MP3, June 1, 2007. Go to http://www.im-listening-audio-books.com, you can listen to a sample of the book you purchase.

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Computer Security Tips
by Syd Tash

If you have an ebay or PayPal account, do not fall for this old phishing scam.  You get an email from an angry, threatening customer, who claims to have paid for your product but never received it.  You may wonder what the point of this email is, or what the sender hopes to gain.

The sender hopes you will click on the Item URL, to see what item the sender claims to have bought.  Then you are asked for your ebay ID and Password, which goes straight to the bad guys.  And that, of course, is the point of the exercise.

The scam works similarly for other companies.  Here's a simple way to protect yourself:  Anytime you want to sign in to one of these companies, you must type the full address yourself, into your browser address bar.  Do not even copy and paste it.  The address should begin with https://... and you should see a gold padlock in the upper or lower right of your screen.

If you’ve been tricked into giving your confidential information, change your password immediately.  Notify the Company about what happened, and forward the fake email to them as well.  Email is not secure.  Never give sensitive information, after having clicked a link in an email.

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Syd Tash is a noted computer security consultant and author of “How to Protect Your Computer from Daily Internet Threats”. He has been keeping surfers safe since the last century.  Find more popular free Daily Tips & information right here: => http://mypcsecuritysite.com
 

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Trivia

The female American Oyster lays an average of 500 million eggs per year. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

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Biz-Tips
by Kevin Nunley

Save Money In The End

Pay more for an experienced designer or writer.  While they may charge you more per hour or job, they will get the job done right and often much faster.  You save money in the end.

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Quote of the Day

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

 - Christopher Morley, Author

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A Little Humor to Start the Week

Lamaze Lesson
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A couple just started their Lamaze class and they were given an activity requiring the husband to wear a bag of sand to give him an idea of what it feels like to be pregnant. The husband stood up and shrugged saying, "This doesn't feel so bad."

The instructor then dropped a pen and asked the husband to pick it up.

"You want me to pick up the pen as if I were pregnant, the way my wife would do it?" the husband asked.

"Exactly," replied the instructor.

To the delight of the other husbands, he turned to his wife and said, "Honey, pick up that pen for me."

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The clerk in a shoe store was trying hard to persuade his customer that a pair of uncomfortable shoes fit him.

'I'm telling you, these shoes are too pointed and too narrow,' argued the customer.

'But, madam, replied the salesman, 'they are wearing narrow, pointed shoes this season.'

'That may be, countered the customer, 'but I'm still wearing my last season's feet

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One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby's crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, skepticism.

Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband.

"A penny for your thoughts," she said.

"It's amazing!" he replied. "I just can't see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50."

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One day while we were studying the solar system in my fifth-grade class one of the students posed an intriguing question about comets. Because I like to show the class that learning is a fun, lifelong process, I told the young gal, "That's an excellent question. I don't know the answer. I wonder where we could find out."

Her response was sincere disbelief. "You don't know? I thought teachers were supposed to know *everything!"

A slow grin crept over my face as I prepared to give my "learning is a life-long process" speech. But before I could get a word out a student from across the room blurted out,

"Yeah, but he's only a fifth-grade teacher."

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When blondes have more fun,
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Something to Think About
By Jan Tincher

Would you like a stressless life?

Take stock of how many rules you live by. The law of averages says that if you have too many rules, somebody's going to violate one of them just about any time, any day. If your rules are violated, you have stress.

Take note of the parents of multiple births. When asked how they keep their sanity, the reply was, "We don't have too many Rules."

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Copyright - 2007

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