From bobrankin@MHV.NET Tue Jan 6 17:00:38 1998
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:25:40 -0500
From: Bob Rankin
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Subject: TOURBUS -- 11 DEC 1997 -- TIPWORLD AND ZDTIPS (PART 2)
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): TIPWORLD AND ZDTIPS (PART 2)
TODAY'S ADDRESSES: http://www.tipworld.com/
Howdy, y'all. :) (This is Patrick - Bob is sending the post since my
e-mail is acting up...)
I am happy to announce that your fearless bus driver is now a regular
contributor to the "Website Wednesday" portion of the Steve and Johnnie
show on WGN radio in Chicago (WGN can be found at 720 on the AM dial, and
it reaches 38 states and a good chunk of Canada. You can also listen to a
Real Audio simulcast of WGN radio live on the Internet at
http://www.wgnradio.com/). You can hear me on WGN radio every Wednesday
night at 11:40-ish PM (Central Time) as I debunk urban legends that are
cluttering up the Information Superhighway.
For example, here is a message that has been floating around the Net recently:
Hello everybody,
My name is Bill Gates. I have just written up an e-mail tracing
program that traces everyone to whom this message is forwarded
to. I am experimenting with this and I need your help. Forward
this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone
on the list will receive $1000 at my expense. Enjoy.
Your friend,
Bill Gates
Now ask yourself, why would a man who has 23,000+ employees on his payroll
(and _MILLIONS_ of people around the world who are willing to beta test
Microsoft's software for _FREE_) pay US$1,000,000.00 to test a stupid
e-mail tracing program? That just doesn't make any sense. Heck, if Bill
Gates _really_ wanted to test an e-mail tracing program, he would go out
and buy some small organization (like, say, France) and tell _them_ to test
the tracing program for him. :)
As you can probably guess by now, your fearless bus driver called Microsoft
earlier this week to determine the validity of the "Bill Gates e-mail
tracing" story. And, as you also can probably guess by now, George Shaw, a
spokesman for Microsoft, told me that the story is "officially not true."
... now if only I can convince the millions of people who were stupid
enough to believe the "Bill Gates e-mail tracing" story to send me a dollar
as part of the new, top-secret "Bill Gates dollar tracing" program. :)
Anyway, thanks the help of several alert TOURBUS riders, I have finally
figured out how you can subscribe to ZDTips (TOURBUS, 4 DECEMBER 1997)
using nothing but e-mail. Before we get to that, though, I want to tell
you about another free tip service called "TipWorld."
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TIPWORLD
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TOURBUS rider Scott Fields introduced me to
TipWorld, a free, e-mail based, tip service offered by IDG (the publishers
of PC World magazine and the ever-present "for Dummies" series of books).
TipWorld offers daily, e-mail based newsletters that give you the latest
tips on, and the latest news and gossip about, the software and online
issues that you are interested in. For example, here are just a couple of
the free, daily newsletters that TipWorld offers:
Virus Alert Tip of the Day
Dummies Daily: Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Office 97 Tip of the Day
Windows NT Tip of the Day
Macworld's Mac OS Tip of the Day
Lotus Notes Tip of the Day
Dummies Daily: America Online
Dummies Daily: Searching the Internet
THE WEB Magazine's Sports Site of the Day
Netscape Navigator Tip of the Day
Microsoft Internet Explorer Tip of the Day
You can find a complete list of TipWorld's newsletters on the World Wide Web at
http://www.tipworld.com/
To subscribe to any of TipWorld's free, daily newsletters, just type in
your e-mail address in the appropriate box on the TipWorld Web page, select
the newsletters to which you would like to subscribe, and then select the
e-mail system that you are using (Eudora, Pegasus, AOL, etc.). That's it.
:)
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ZDTIPS BY E-MAIL
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Geoffrey John Pickering recently informed me that
it is indeed possible to subscribe to any of the ZDTips tip services using
nothing but e-mail. Here is how to do it.
1) Send a new e-mail letter to
listproc@zdtips.com
2) In the _body_ of your e-mail letter, type
join
replacing with the name of the list to which you
would like to subscribe, and replacing with your
name. For example, if your name were Bill Gates and you
wanted to subscribe to the Mactips list (to test your new Mac
tracing program), the body of your e-mail letter should be
join mactips Bill Gates
Here is the current list of ZDTips' 57 different mailing lists. A few of
these lists are discussion lists, not tips lists. Remember, if you want
just tips, sign up to the tips lists only!
LISTNAME DESCRIPTION
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imptips Microsoft Project Tip of the Week
excel-thread Excel Discussion List
msptips Microsoft Publisher Tip of the Week
wcetips WindowsCE Tip of the Week
svctips Visual Cafe Tip of the Week
jdjtips JBuilder Tip of the Week
iba Internet Business Advantage
pjdtips Pure Java Tip of the Week
suntips Solaris Tip of the Week
ibasub Internet Business Advantage Alert
tnrtips Lotus Notes Tip of the Week
frontpage98-talk FrontPage 98 Discussion List
javascript-talk Javascript Discussion List
java-talk Java Talk Discussion List
tnrsub The Notes Report Alert
cpbtips C++ Builder Tip of the Week
ewntips Windows NT Tip of the Week
projecttips Project Tip of the Week
mo9tips Microsoft Office 95 Tip of the Week
alttips Alta Vista Tip of the Week
tmatips Mac Tip of the Week
asptips Active Server Tip of the Week
inwtips Netware Tip of the Week
sybtips Sybase SQL Server Tip of the Week
outlooktips Outlook Tip of the Week
macotips Mac Office Tip of the Week
delphi-talk Delphi Talk Discussion List
imatips Access Tip of the Week
w97tips Word 97 Tip of the Week
e97tips Excel 97 Tip of the Week
ccmtips ccMail Tip of the Week
mactips Mac Tip of the Week
vjptips Visual J++ Tip of the Week
ddj-collaborate [I have no idea what this list is --PC]
o97tips Microsoft Office 97 Tip of the Week
quarktips Quark Tip of the Week
cpb-thread C++ Builder Discussion list
access-thread Access Discussion List
wprtips Microsoft FrontPage Tip of the Week
ddj-thread-db DDJ's Delphi DB Discussion list
inntips Netscape Navigator Tip of the Week
wpwtips Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 Tip of the Week
iactips AutoCAD Tip of the Week
fthtips Flight Simulator Tip of the Week
ddj-sneak DDJ Programmer's Sneak Peek
ddj-update What's New at the DDJ Web Site
ddj-source DDJ Source Code
ddj-summary Monthly DDJ Article Summary
ddj-thread DDJ's Delphi Discussion List
ipmtips PageMaker Tip of the Week
ivbtips Visual Basic Tip of the Week
adjtips Office/Access Developers Tip of the Week
ddjtips Delphi Tip of the Week
w95-alert Inside Microsoft Windows 95 Alert List
webfanatic Buzz Webster is the Web Fanatic
ietips Internet Explorer Tips
win95tips Windows 95 Tips
Remember, to subscribe to any of these lists,
1) Send a new e-mail letter to
listproc@zdtips.com
2) In the _body_ of your e-mail letter, type
join
replacing with the name of the list to which you
would like to subscribe, and replacing with your
name
That's it this week. I'll be back again on Saturday for TOURBUS Plus (for
those of you who are part of the plus bus), and then I am going to take a
week or two off to rest, relax, and recover from the 5 hours of oral
surgery that I have to undergo on Tuesday. So, since this will be last
time I talk to most of you until 1998, I want to wish you all a safe and
happy holiday season ... and watch out for those squirrels! :)
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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FLOSS WATER (noun). A device used to squish flying bugs.
Usage: "Hand me the floss water, bubba ... I'm gonna git that bee!"
(Special thanks to Anna Smith for today's wurd)
YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD
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