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Trick your address book!

Who among us doesn't know someone who has experienced the embarrassment
of unknowingly spreading a computer virus via their email address book?

It's time to STOP this from happening by TAKING CONTROL of your email
program! For those who are unaware, many computer viruses spread
themselves by sending themselves to everyone in your address book. Imagine
how you would feel if you were unknowingly infected with a computer virus,
and worse yet, your friends, family, and business contacts were being
targeted by your computer! Well, if you want to avoid this sort of thing,
here's a great tip:

This tip won't prevent YOU from getting any viruses (you have to scan
those attachments yourself before opening them to do that), but it will
stop those viruses from latching onto your address book and sending itself
out to others.

To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address
book with the name :
** !0000
with no email address in the details.

This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts
to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error
message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients
do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure
all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." Your messages to an
individual or individual addressees will not be affected. You click on OK
and the offending (virus) message would not have been sent to anyone. Of
course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The
offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in
your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending
message. Problem is solved and virus is not spread.

Here is one way you can make typing messages for group message boards using your own inividual style quick and easy. It does take a couple of minutes to set up a template, but after that, it is easy.

First, click on reply and type a short message formatted the way you would normally do it. Include your font style, size, and color. If you use a table and a background, include those, too. And don't forget your standard signature.

Next, position the cursor at the end of your short message and backspace over the text. Then click on Use Html to create your page. You will see the HTML for your basic message setup. Press Ctrl+a to select it all and Ctrl+c to copy it.

Start notepad and press Ctrl+v to paste the HTML into it. Finally, click File and Save As. Type the name GroupMessage.htm and save it to My Documents.

To make your template easy to access, click Start and My Documents. Then drag GroupMessage.htm to the left side of your task bar. If you'd like to change the icon, you can right-click on it and select Properties.

Now, here is the easy part. When you are ready to post a message, go ahead and click Reply. Then click your GroupMessage icon in the task bar. Your template will open in a new browser window. Press Ctrl+a to select it and Ctrl+c to copy it and close the window. In the reply box, press Ctrl+v to load your format and start typing

<html>
<CENTER>
<TABLE background="Your Background URL" border=2 cellPadding=40 cellSpacing=0 width="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="100%">
<P>
<CENTER>
<TABLE background="Your Background URL" border=2 cellPadding=40 cellSpacing=0 width="90%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="90%">
<P>
<CENTER>
<TABLE background="Your Background URL" border=2 cell Padding=40 cellSpacing=0 width="85%"><P>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD width="85%">Your Content Goes Here</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</td>
</tr>

This informaton came from someone in Community Feedback.

if you click on the Send Message button and your post turns white and doesn't appear to send, don't worry - its not lost and you don't have to retype your message! - just Right Click inside that blank white post window, choose Refresh, then a new little window will pop up, click on RETRY. You might have to do that more than once when the Hiccups are bad Feel free to pass this tip along!!

This is great advice if you are like me and forget to copy before you hit send!

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