Internet SIG meetings are held every second Monday. Today was a second Monday. Jim Fogg announced he was giving up on his search for the address book in Word. However it was suggested his quest could continue, there was for example a very good third party address book provided for Word6. Maybe there is a third party address book for Word 97. If you ever get an error message and do not understand it, write it down and ask someone. There is very little point say "I got and error message", say what the error is and there is a chance the mystery could be solved. Mike demonstrated for those interested, How to take a snap shot of your screen for later saving or printing. This is how you do it. 1. When at the screen you want to capture, press Alt + Print Screen 2. Open up Word, or any other program that will take a bitmap. 3. Press Ctrl + V, that is Paste 4. Then print the document. How to connect to TIP This became a free for all discussion. It started off as a matter concerning instructions issued by the PCUG on How to Connect. Remember Mike Gellard's W95A instructions? then Emil's instructions currently being issued for W95B, and now we have John Saxon's and Chess's for W98. Why can't we issue a disk like AOL or Big Pond? Well, who is we and how are we going to do it? We really are not a commercial ISP. Emil thought that the wording on the TIP application could be amended to point out this fact to new members, maybe the information kit on the PCUG/TIP should be re-written to stop people from walking in off the street and demanding instant access. When did this happen, thought there was a 2 month waiting period? Should TIP be privatized? But remember that TIP does not have customers, but rather members. There was that famous response of Karl Auer's to a new member who, on the BBS, wrote, "I expect my ISP to......." . KA response told him where to go, and I am sorry I have had so many computer crashes for I would love to repost the message. All in all, a very interesting discussion, would be interesting to hear other peoples view on this matter. Another question was, "What happens to mail sent to a non existent TIP address, with a From address that also is non existent"? Well thanks to Allan, this mail goes into the postmasters junk box and probably deleted within seconds of viewing. If the mail is to or from another ISP, then that can be a bit different, and Allan recounted the story of the faulty mailer at the electrol commission which, Sent a mail to TI with wrong From address, wrong To address TIP sent it back say "sorry, invalid address" Electrol commission then sent that message back "Invalid address TIP sent that message back "Invalid address" Got the drift, well by the time Postmaster intercepted this, 14000 odd messages had gone backwards and forwards. Postmaster was not impressed!. With the latest Netscape Browsers (4.0x up) you cannot read idly make another mailer your default mailer, for example, I like using Agent as my mailer, but when I press on a MAILTO on a web page, up comes the Netscape mailer. This defaulting is controlled by a file called pref.js, and if you open it up in a text editor, you will get the warning "Do not edit" Don't worry too much about that, just make a backup before you start playing and try editing it. Have a look at http://www.ufaq.org it is a great site, and you can probably end up at http://www.ufaq.org/commonly/userprefs.html and read all about these preferences. The weekend Australian has a great list of medical sites if you are interested in that sort of thing. here is the listing; Ask your Virtual Chemist at: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/2617/drugquestions.html http://www.onhealth.com/ch1/index.asp Personal health guide http://www.virtualdrugstore.com/ Virtual Drug Store http://www.drugfreeamerica.org Drug free resource kit http://www.customs.gov.au Australian customs After last meetings ICQ demo, Neville I think joined up for AOL Instant Messenger, it costs nothing and allows an IRC style system with others on the AOL system. Does anyone know how to kill that AOL messenger thing that pops up when you start NS sometimes? That was it again for another fortnight. Monday the 29th will be the next meeting. Thanks to Allan and all attendees for the interesting morning. -- ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/pcug/candc/c&c.htm These Archives are now searchable, and also include some minutes of the Internet SIG, run on alternate Mondays ******************************************************
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