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This may not be a stictly Internet related question, but I figured I'd
throw it out there anyway. Someone gave the following quote (by Emerson) to
my mom, and I'm trying to find out what poem (or other piece of writing) it
came from. As I just mentioned, the author is Ralph Waldo Emerson.

	 Ring the bells
	 that still can ring
	 forget your perfect offering
	 there is a crack in everything
	 that's how the light gets in

Thanks in advance for any help in figuring out the source!


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    "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you
    from one minute to the next."
    -Mignon McLaughlin

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On 4 Nov 99, at 22:21, Mae Shell wrote:
> the author is Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Mae:
Are you sure that the author is Ralph Waldo Emerson?  All of the
search results I am finding indicate the author is Leonard Cohen
from "Anthem"

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Hey, everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that I found the source of
he quote I asked about before, which I thought was by Emerson, but actually
wasn't. Thanks to Curt Davis for pointing me toward the correction author.

The quote is part of a song by Leonard Cohen, from his CD "The Future,"
copyright November 1992. The song is titled "Anthem" and goes as follows:

                   The birds they sang
                   at the break of day
                   Start again
                   I heard them say
                   Don't dwell on what
                   has passed away
                   or what is yet to be.

                   Ah the wars they will
                   be fought again
                   The holy dove
                   She will be caught again
                   bought and sold
                   and bought again
                   the dove is never free.

                   Ring the bells that still can ring
                   Forget your perfect offering
                   There is a crack in everything
                   That's how the light gets in.

                   We asked for signs
                   the signs were sent:
                   the birth betrayed
                   the marriage spent
                   Yeah the widowhood
                   of every government --
                   signs for all to see.

                   I can't run no more
                   with that lawless crowd
                   while the killers in high places
                   say their prayers out loud.
                   But they've summoned, they've summoned up
                   a thundercloud
                   and they're going to hear from me.

                   Ring the bells that still can ring ...

                   You can add up the parts
                   but you won't have the sum
                   You can strike up the march,
                   there is no drum
                   Every heart, every heart
                   to love will come
                   but like a refugee.

                   Ring the bells that still can ring
                   Forget your perfect offering
                   There is a crack, a crack in everything
                   That's how the light gets in.

                   Ring the bells that still can ring
                   Forget your perfect offering
                   There is a crack, a crack in everything
                   That's how the light gets in.
                   That's how the light gets in.
                   That's how the light gets in.








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    "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you
    from one minute to the next."
    -Mignon McLaughlin

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Are you aware of this website?  It may be of interest to you or some of your
friends.

With love always, Jeanne

In a message dated 11/4/99 5:40:42 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< From: "Curt Davis" <cdavis@...>

  Here is a GREAT resource!  The East-West Project has an online
  MS Office tutorial including Word, Powerpoint and Excel.  Each
  tutorial includes a glossary, and several lessons to get you up to
  speed on the featured program.

  http://teleeducation.nb.ca/it/module5/index.html
   >>

Sorry about this, learn-netters.  This was meant for a different friend. -
Jeanne Myers

In a message dated 11/8/99 11:09:15 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Bloojeanne@... writes:

<< From: Bloojeanne@...

  Ros,
  Are you aware of this website?  It may be of interest to you or some of your
  friends.

  With love always, Jeanne

  In a message dated 11/4/99 5:40:42 AM Pacific Standard Time,
  cdavis@... writes:

  << From: "Curt Davis" <cdavis@...>

   Here is a GREAT resource!  The East-West Project has an online
   MS Office tutorial including Word, Powerpoint and Excel.  Each
   tutorial includes a glossary, and several lessons to get you up to
   speed on the featured program.

   http://teleeducation.nb.ca/it/module5/index.html
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The virtual classroom (US)

Anthony Lonetree / Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=DISVAR&da
te=14-Nov-1999

For more than a year, the students in Concordia University's program
on school-age care traded questions and answers in an e-mail chat
room, always ending their correspondence with a simple command:
/quit.

But they froze at their keyboards during the final online session.

"That last night was pretty emotional," recalled Tami Skinner, a
Roseville native who was the only Minnesotan then participating in
the St. Paul institution's distance-education program. "It was
literally: 'OK, at the count of three . . .' "

Distance may be essential to online learning, but connections are
being made by students and faculty members in the growing field of
electronic education. With more courses being taken by computer,
traditional colleges and universities are vying with flashy
newcomers in bids to attract older, nontraditional students.

For Skinner, who earlier obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary
education from Bemidji State University, distance learning meant a
personal transformation from a student who once had been content to
sit silently taking notes into one who embraced the online give and
take.

At the University of St. Thomas, the electronic discourse in a
medical group management program found one participant -- a
phlebotomist -- taking on a classmate who happened to be chief
executive officer of a clinic.

"They went toe-to-toe as if they were equal colleagues," said
Stephanie Hagel, assistant director of the online master's degree
program. "I don't know if that would have occurred in a traditional
classroom."

At Capella University, a Minneapolis-based adult online learning
program, Rabbi Hayim Herring found a connection with instructors
that was lacking in his undergraduate days at New York's Columbia
University.

"And I've never worked so hard," he added.

Old with the new  

The appeal of distance learning among motivated, self-directed
students has introduced many new players to higher education, among
them Capella University, Jones International University and Western
Governors University.

Newcomers to the field can find it easy to invest in technology when
they aren't bound to classroom traditions, said Joe Graba, a former
state legislator who now heads Hamline University's Graduate School
of Education.

"Traditional institutions are having a very difficult time
reallocating resources into the production of online learning," he
said. "It's the age-old story: The railroads are not developing the
airlines."

At the University of Minnesota, a task force charged with devising
the university's long-term distance-education strategy is not
expected to begin work until next month, at the earliest.

Tom McRoberts, interim director of distance education at the U of
M's University College, said he believed the abundance of
higher-education institutions -- the Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities (MnSCU) system alone has 36 schools -- has made
in-person attendance the norm in Minnesota.

"I think that the necessity and urgency [for online learning] would
become more apparent" if there were fewer institutions, McRoberts
said. But he added that public institutions still should pursue
electronic niches to serve students who cannot routinely leave work
for school.

The Minnesota Virtual University, an online data resource run by
MnSCU and the "U," currently lists 526 Web-based courses being
offered in Minnesota, the bulk of which belong to Walden University
of Minneapolis.

Yet the list is incomplete; the site still is under construction.

Student engagement  

Distance-education programs are not without critics -- or questions.
Nationally, faculty organizations have wondered whether investments
in online learning will come at the expense of staffing and building
projects. Concerns also have been raised about corporate ties in
higher education.

Capella is one of 15 online schools that are to be subjects of a
U.S. Department of Education study on degree completion rates and
other data aimed at determining how many students are promoted or get
new jobs as a result.

"We welcome the idea of benchmarks," Steve Shank, Capella's
cofounder, said recently. "Outcomes are important."

Graba, who long has championed distance education, said that
technology still is limited as well, particularly in the
presentation of video over the Internet.

"We've come so far in last seven or eight years, but I still say
we're really in the horse-and-buggy stage," he said. "In 20 years'
time, we're going to look back and smile at what we thought was
cutting-edge stuff."

Questions also remain about intellectual-property copyrights and
compensation.

But proponents say the best online courses -- those promoting
interaction among students and faculty through chat rooms and
bulletin boards -- improve writing and one-to-one relationships
between student and professor, and act as equalizers between the
classroom introverts and extroverts.

Ginger Tomlinson, who participated in Concordia's school-age care
program from her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains at Roanoke, Va.,
said that the "power of words jumping from the screen" inspired
greater detail in her work.

Despite working for Blue Ridge Public Television, Tomlinson said,
she no longer takes cable TV at home, "which means that in these
mountains we don't have TV." But she still has a computer: "I have
every word written by my professor . . . for as long as this disk
holds up," she said.

Skinner teamed with a classmate from northern California to write
her master's thesis in school-age care. She said that online learning
also proved beneficial when she was pregnant. Not only did the
technology save her the misery of finding parking in winter, it also
inspired her daughter's name, Abi.

A classmate spelled her name that way.

Faculty enterprise  

For the faculty, online teaching brings new dimensions to their
work, not all of them satisfying.

At the U of M's University College, faculty members who teach as
part of a bachelor's degree program in applied business tend to work
either online or in the classroom, but rarely both, said Victoria
Mikelonis, faculty director.

In fact, she said, three classroom teachers who designed and taught
online courses elected not to return to Web teaching after only one
quarter.

"Some faculty members just shine in the classroom," she said. "They
really like to perform and to get their energy from the students."

Many instructors also are finding that online course work demands
considerable bookkeeping, especially when students finish
assignments at different times. In exercises demanding rewrites,
teachers have to remind themselves of which draft they're seeing,
Mikelonis said.

But she's sold on Internet instruction, which she describes as the
"guided discovery method" of teaching: "You lead students to certain
Web sites; they find others, and they share the information. It
becomes a learning community. The teacher is not a sage on the
stage, but a guide on the side."

Kevin Johnson, an emergency-health-services instructor at Inver
Hills Community College, developed an online paramedics program now
getting a trial run with eight northern Minnesota students. They hear
his voice and see the slides that he'd present in his classroom
presentations.

Initially, Johnson said, he thought that the course would be
difficult to pull off. Now he hopes to take it to a global audience
someday.

At the University of St. Thomas, Chris Kachian, an associate
professor of music, worked with the school's Center for Multimedia
Design to create a series of six music exercises that now are
provided to students on CD-ROM but will be added next year to his
music literature Web site.

A section on melodies allows students to strike notes, sending them
soaring.

"It immediately lets people get the clay under their fingernails,"
he said. By the end of class, they compose music on the computer.

Kachian said that his friends are incredulous at the thought of him
-- a classical guitarist -- embracing new technologies. "That part of
my job has scarcely changed since the 15th century," he said.

But as he sat in his office, plucking the nylon strings of his
guitar, he revealed a tiny metal plug underneath it.

Just another connection -- to a computer.

-----------------

Also in this issue:

- House extends stalking law to cyberspace (US)
     WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to extend federal anti-stalking
     laws to cover those who use e-mail, the Internet, the telephone or
     other interstate communications to pursue their victims.
- Surfing the Net (Israel)
     (November 7) -- I am not pregnant. --
     This was confirmed by The Online Pregnancy Test, which purports to
     reveal if you're "knocked up/preggers/in a family way" at the push of
     a button, "regardless of your gender."
- User Friendly (Israel)
     (November 7) -- A Netscape/IE alternative --
     Like any kid, I liked to anthropomorphizeimagine inanimate objects,
     imagining them as anthromorphizing themselves into walking and
     talking creatures. Ideas, too. Like, what would that statue of George
     Washington say if it could speak?
- E-Commonwealth Nets A New Community On The Web (Africa)
     Johannesburg - The Commonwealth Institute, a pan-Commonwealth agency
     based in London, is previewing a new internet initiative at the
     Commonwealth Business Forum being held in Sandton.
- African Digital Library On-Line (Africa)
     Centre for Lifelong Learning
     A digital library for the benefit of users throughout Africa, went
     on-line today, 3 November 1999. In response to the need for library
     books in Africa, Technikon SA (TSA) has provided an initial
     sponsorship of R1m to set up the African Digital Library.
- West Africa Rural Foundation Speeds into the Information Age (Africa)
     Dakar, Senegal - Only a little more than a year ago, the West Africa
     Rural Foundation (WARF) had one email address that it used
     sporadically. Today every employee at WARF has email and Web
     browsing capabilities at their desktop and, according to the CEO of
     Senegal's largest private Internet Service Provider, they are the
     second most active user of the Internet after the United Nations
     Development Program.
- Dubai announces plan to launch the world’s first free trade zone for
   e-business (UAE)
     A revolutionary global initiative to establish ‘Dubai Internet City’
     was announced on October 29 by General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
     Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister.
- LatAm en route to be next e-commerce frontier (Latin America)
     MEXICO CITY, Nov 12: Latin America, until now mostly a backwater in
     the new technology of cyberspace, is witnessing the birth of an
     Internet revolution that is setting it on the path to be the next
     electronic-commerce frontier, says IPS.
- Pitfalls in the e-shop (Ireland/EU)
     E-commerce: Una Tighe on EU attempts to level the legal playing
     field If an Irish consumer buys defective goods over the Internet,
     can he sue the European supplier in Ireland? If so, can an Irish
     court apply Irish law to the contract?
- The wonderful Wizards of Oz (Ireland-Australia)
     Are you sick of Irish newspaper supplements and magazine inserts
     telling you about technology? Count yourself lucky. Get over to
     Australia, where you wade through the inserts to try and find the
     hard news.
- The virtual classroom (US)
     For more than a year, the students in Concordia University's program
     on school-age care traded questions and answers in an e-mail chat
     room, always ending their correspondence with a simple command:
     /quit.
- New Lists and Journals
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     * NEW: LadiesAuxiliary
- Sunday Supplement
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                      :Net Companies Spend More On TV Ads
CUSTOMER SERVICE     :New Features May Discourage Consumers
DEMOGRAPHICS         :Divide in European Internet Experience
                      :12.97 Million Using Net Services in Japan
E-COMMERCE           :Internet Economy Worth USD1 Trillion in 2001
                      :Real Numbers Behind Net Profits '99
EMAIL                :One Third of All Spam is Pornographic
GOV/LEG              :European Ministers Ponder Ecommerce Laws
                      :Consumer Ecommerce Bill Sparks Controversy
                      :Irish Politicians - Poor Grasp of the Internet
HEALTH/MEDICAL       :Net to Radically Change Health Care Industry
INFRASTRUCTURES      :More Than 8 Million Sites Online
INTERNET TRADING     :Online Security Traders Double in Size
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* AOL sued by the blind *
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* First domain name dispute in the Philippines *
* Intel wins Intergraph suit *
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* Male - Male part II *
* Newspapers win FreeRepublic lawsuit *
* Haiti shuts down largest ISP *
* Class action over RealNetworks privacy breach *
* New Mexico anti-pornography law - unconstitutional *
* Windowing Patent *
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* Yahoo! hit with patent suit *
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* Oral argument in COPA case *
* PainWebber sues NetRatings
* CA executives order to return 550 million *
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My teenage stepson, away at college, recently asked "How does it feel know
that anytime I want I can send something that will destroy your
computer?"  A couple of my teenage clients have made similar threats (I
guess I must bring out some latent hostility in male adolescents.)  Anyway
since I have a cable modem, I'm always connected to the Internet and I
guess vulnerable to some kind of vandalism beyond the ken of antivirus
software.  Soooooo do I need a firewall?
Is anyone using one? I read a review of eSafe, the editors choice in a
recent PC Magazine. I found it and downloaded it, but am wary of installing
it.  What does a firewall actually do and what if any is the downside?

I'm sick of my clickety clackety keyboard. Does anyone have a lead on a
comfortable, quiet, ergonomic, politically correct keyboard?
Ray


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Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D.

"Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D." wrote:

> From: "Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D." <Dr.A@...>
>
> My teenage stepson, away at college, recently asked "How does it feel know
> that anytime I want I can send something that will destroy your
> computer?"  A couple of my teenage clients have made similar threats (I
> guess I must bring out some latent hostility in male adolescents.)  Anyway
> since I have a cable modem, I'm always connected to the Internet and I
> guess vulnerable to some kind of vandalism beyond the ken of antivirus
> software.  Soooooo do I need a firewall?
> Is anyone using one? I read a review of eSafe, the editors choice in a
> recent PC Magazine. I found it and downloaded it, but am wary of installing
> it.  What does a firewall actually do and what if any is the downside?
>
> I'm sick of my clickety clackety keyboard. Does anyone have a lead on a
> comfortable, quiet, ergonomic, politically correct keyboard?
> Ray
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D.
>
> > To unsubscribe, <mailto:learn-net-unsubscribe@ONElist.com>

Dr. Arsenault:

Though I don't believe I can help you with your firewall/eSafe question, I can,
however, tell you how much I truly enjoy my  Logitech New Touch Keyboard with
integrated Touch Pad (optional use) and improved comfort.  Hope it works for
you, and good luck with the teenagers!

Barbara S. Nickerson

P.S.  I suppose you could always rethink your cable modem decision, if that's
even a consideration for you.  It would decrease your state of vulnerability
somewhat.

On 17 Nov 99, at 20:02, Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D. wrote:
> that anytime I want I can send something that will destroy your
> computer?"

Ray:
That's a pretty bold statement...  However, there is a good chance
that your stepson has prior knowledge of your computer setup and
may have it configured for remote access.  He might also mean
that he would send you a destructive virus as an email file
attachment.

The first thing to do to reduce your vulnerability is to disable file
and printer sharing and physically secure the computer from
being tampered with.  Next, never open an email attachment
without first scanning the file for a virus with a dependable
antivirus scanner - with a current virus definition.  Microsoft email
clients are particularly vulnerable to many of the newer viruses
such as Bubble Boy which is just one more very good reason to
use a non-Microsoft email program.  Pegasus is a great choice
for an email client and Pegasus is not vulnerable to Bubble Boy.
Note that executable files still need to be scanned for viruses no
matter which email program you use.

> Soooooo do I need a firewall?

The next thing you should do is use Steve Gibson's Shield's Up
program which is freely available at his website to determine your
compter's vulnerability to attack via the internet.  You can check
your computer security here - For the most reliable results you can
download Gibson's FREE IP Agent prior to running the test:

http://www.grc.com/x/ne.htm?bh0bkyd2

Black Ice is one of the better Firewall programs and that program
has received very good reviews.  Here are some places to learn
more about specific firewalls and network security in general:

Gibson's Personal Internet Firewalls that really work:

http://grc.com/su-firewalls.htm

Network Intrusion Detection Systems FAQs:

http://www.ticm.com/kb/faq/idsfaq.html

Here is a handy table comparing various Firewall products:

http://www.ticm.com/kb/faq/idsfaq.html#4.1

Internet Firewall resources:

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/firewalls/

Internet Firewall FAQs:

http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/pubs/fwfaq/

Security Software:

http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/security-prog.html

ICSA Firewall certification program:

http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/firewalls/certified_products.shtml

ICSA 3rd Annual Firewall Industry Guide:

http://www.icsa.net/fwbg/

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Hi,

Does anyone know of how one might find money-making work online?  Is there a
website that offers information about online jobs?

Thanks.

Jeanne Myers
Bloojeanne@...

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In a message dated 11/18/99 5:11:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
cdavis3@... writes:

<< Does anyone know of how one might find money-making work online?  Is there

  > a website that offers information about online jobs?
   >>

Hi Curt,

Thank you for the terrific list of job-search resources.  Do you also know of
situations where the work is actually done online?

Thanks so much for your help.
Jeanne Myers
Bloojeanne@...

At 10:27 PM 11/17/99 +0000, Curt Davis wrote:
>The next thing you should do is use Steve Gibson's Shield's Up
>program which is freely available at his website to determine your
>compter's vulnerability to attack via the internet.  You can check
>your computer security here - For the most reliable results you can
>download Gibson's FREE IP Agent prior to running the test:
>
>http://www.grc.com/x/ne.htm?bh0bkyd2

Curt,
Thank you again. I got a complete checkup and know what I need to know.
   I remain astounded at your breadth of knowledge and you willingness to be
ever helpful.  This list is very lucky to have you.
I will say though that your website "joke" did cause me to push the panic
button. (g)
Ray



--------------------------------------------------------

Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D.

On 19 Nov 99, at 14:03, Bloojeanne@... wrote:
> also know of situations where the work is actually done online?

Jeanne:
There are lots of ways to make money on the internet.
Unfortunately, many of the online money making schemes ere
designed to either scam you out of your money or recruit you to
scam others out of their money...

The real power of the internet lies in the ability to reach millions
and millions of consumers.  Not too long ago, no one thought there
was any money to be made on the internet.  This sentiment was
due in large part to the free culture of the internet.  Now
businesses are rushing to build websites to sell their products
online.

The internet offers new ways to make money and new ways to
reach your target market.  Ordering products online through
secured servers is generally considered to be extremely safe.  In
fact, many credit card companies now provide free insurance
against fraudulent activity for products ordered through secured
servers.

The internet can also be very dangerous when personal
information is given to others.  A good general rule would be to
never give out personal information such as credit card numbers
or social security numbers to anyone who solicits that information
from you. It is also very important to be sure that you know who
you are providing credit card information to when ordering
products online.

Here are some ideas for ways to make money online.

Some of the most profitable online ventures were started as free
services.  Those ventures are then often sold later to large
companies for millions of dollars as a way to reach consumers or
they can generate huge revenues by advertising.  Blue Mountain
greeting cards and Ebay are great examples.  While Blue
Mountain was recently sold to Excite, Ebay continues to be a very
successful online trading site.  Realizing that not everyone has an
idea for the next Blue Mountain or Ebay, there are still ways to
make money online.

One of the best ways to start a money making venture online is to
use mailing lists, newsletters and websites - all of which are
available for free.  The internet offers a fantastic opportunity to
reach people with similar interests.  Almost everyone has
something that they know a lot about or are particularly good at
doing.  Mailing lists, newsletters and websites provide an easy way
to reach groups of people and offer products or obtain revenue
from advertisers wanting to reach that same group.  While it is
important to distinguish advertising from spam, there are ways to
provide free services and information along with a message that
includes limited advertisements.

Ted Holmes'  CEBN offers the best source of information that I
have seen for becoming an online entrepreneur - and it's free!
Here is an excerpt from the CEBN website - "CEBN offers several
valuable services designed to help you, the entrepreneur, to
market your product or service on the Internet. That is my core
mission, and everything I do focuses on that."

http://www.cebn.com/

I highly recommend Ted's CEBN newsletter and his free Internet
Marketing book.  The book is available by sending an email
message to:

Book@...

There are still a few other ways to make money online other than
the ones mentioned above.   AllAdvantage.com will pay you to surf
the internet and they will also pay for referrals.  This is a legitimate
offer and all of the reports I have seen for this service have been
positive.  There are also other services similar to AllAdvantage:

http://AllAdvantage.com/home.asp

In addition to getting paid to surf the internet, there are also
services that reduce your costs by providing free internet access.
There are quite a few of these services around now.  Netzero is
probably the best known service for free internet access:

http://www.netzero.com/

I am sure that others could make more suggestions about how to
make money online and there will certainly be new opportunities
as the internet becomes more accessible to everyone.





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http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis

Hello!

I've been out of town for a few weeks and Curt has been managing things for
me while I was away...and looks like things have been flowing smoothly.
Thanks, Curt!

Now, upon returning, I've re-registered with Onelist by a new email address,
and in doing so, I was sent the original "Welcome" message for this mailing
list.  And, that's when I discovered that it's all garbled up (see below).
Have any of the rest of you who are new to this list received your Welcome
message in such a "smashed together" fashion??  The thing that puzzled me is
that when I went to the control settings on Onelist to fix it, all the
spaces and line breaks that are suppose to be there seem appear on the
settings page for the Welcome message.

So, before I find a "help" person at Onelist, I was just wondering--how this
message appeared in the email clients of other new members?

Thanks!
Robin

********************************************
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Visit Our Web site: http://www.inspiredinside.com/learning/learn-net.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: learn-net-owner@onelist.com [mailto:learn-net-owner@onelist.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 10:11 AM
To: Robin@...
Subject: [learn-net] Welcome to learn-net@onelist.com


Hello,  Welcome to the Learn-Net mailing list.  You are now subscribed and
any email that you wish to post for all other subscribers to see can be sent
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ONElist web site, at www.onelist.com, and select the User Center link from
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Coordinator  p.s.  WARNING:  Any form of spamming will not be tolerated on
Learn-net.  For more details, please read the rest of this message...
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In a message dated 11/20/99 7:14:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cdavis@... writes:

<< Jeanne:
  There are lots of ways to make money on the internet.  >>

Curt,
Thank you so much for all the information you sent.  I'm thrilled to have it
and will send it on to friends who are interested in the money-making
possibilities on the net.  It's great to have you there.
Jeanne Myers
Bloojeanne@...

FYI, Onelist is merging with Egroups and here's a recent email that they
sent to list moderators in response to concerns about this topic...

-----Original Message-----
From: admin@onelist.com [mailto:admin@onelist.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:28 PM
To: onelist_moderators@onelist.com
Subject: [onelist_moderators] Update to Moderators

From: admin@onelist.com

Dear ONElist Member,

As news of our recent merger with eGroups has spread, we've heard from a
number of concerned members. Many of you have questions about what will
happen to our service and your communities as the merger proceeds.

While we pursue our integration plan, we want to assure you of the
following:

1. The current ONElist Terms of Service will remain in effect during and
after the merger. Our privacy, support and anti-spam policies will not
change.

2. As eGroups and ONElist become one service, the privacy of our members and
our communities will continue to be respected. This means that you will
retain complete control over all information you share with ONElist. We will
not share or sell any of this information without your explicit permission.

3. Historically, eGroups and ONElist have had different standards for
determining what community content was acceptable. As our two companies come
together, we may need to modify our terms and policies. As always, you will
be informed of these changes when and if they happen. However, we will not
change our commitment to providing a healthy environment for community
interaction. Behavior or content that violates our Terms of Service or
local,
regional, national, or international laws will continue to be prohibited.

4. Many of you have expressed concerns that this merger will eliminate the
unique services that originally brought you to ONElist. Be assured that
throughout the integration of our companies, we will strive to keep and
expand the best elements of both companies' services. You can rely on our
friendly support, reliable performance, and great services to improve and
continue over the coming months.

Thank you for using ONElist!


The ONElist-eGroups Team

Hi everybody!

Few days ago I visited "Curt's Corner in Cyberspace". I found cool
links.
Thanks for resources.

A good friend of mine has a small radio show about internet.
It's a bit strange to talk about internet on radio, but it works very
well.

Very soon it'll arrive winter holidays and he need some materials for
his show.

So, my question: can you suggest some good sites about anything
connected with:
- winter
- winter holidays (religious or not)
- Christmas (how is seen by different believes)

For postcards, I have www.bluemountain.com (I think it is the best
place)

There are a lot of stuff connected with this event.

I'll search next evening on net about this subject, but I'd like to know
your preferred sites.

Thank you very much!

gabi

Gabriel Petrescu wrote:

> From: Gabriel Petrescu <gabitzu@...>
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> Few days ago I visited "Curt's Corner in Cyberspace". I found cool
> links.
> Thanks for resources.
>
> A good friend of mine has a small radio show about internet.
> It's a bit strange to talk about internet on radio, but it works very
> well.
>
> Very soon it'll arrive winter holidays and he need some materials for
> his show.
>
> So, my question: can you suggest some good sites about anything
> connected with:
> - winter
> - winter holidays (religious or not)
> - Christmas (how is seen by different believes)
>
> For postcards, I have www.bluemountain.com (I think it is the best
> place)
>
> There are a lot of stuff connected with this event.
>
> I'll search next evening on net about this subject, but I'd like to know
> your preferred sites.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> gabi
>
> > To unsubscribe, <mailto:learn-net-unsubscribe@ONElist.com>

Gabi,
Take a look at www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8477/xmas2.html
It's all about Christmas and seems idea for a radio show because there's
lots to read, etc.  Hope this helps your friend and, have a nice holiday.
Barbara...

On 22 Nov 99, at 22:50, Gabriel Petrescu wrote:
> Few days ago I visited "Curt's Corner in Cyberspace".

HI Gabi:
THANKS for stopping by!  I am working on updating my online
links -  I haven't uploaded my bookmarks in almost a year now and
they have grown to over 13,000 links - too large to load as a single
file...

>>> good sites about anything connected with: - winter - winter holidays
Christmas (how is seen by different believes) <<<

There are so many places that it's hard to say which are the best.
Here are just a few that seem to have what you are looking for:

Here is an article about Christmas around the world that was
written by Robin Nobles, an accomplished writer - with articles
published on a wide range of topics:

http://www.robinsnest.com/articles/xmasothercountries98.html

Christmas Around the World from The-North-Pole:

http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/

Worldview of Christmas:

http://www.christmas.com/worldview/

Christmas customs around the world:

http://www.greeceny.com/ls/links/christmasAroundTheWorld.html

Christmas Round the World (URL may span 2 lines):

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/8900/holiday/world.htm
l

Yahooligans! - Around the World:Religion:Christianity:Christmas
(URL may span 2 lines):

http://www.yahooligans.com/around_the_world/religion/christianity/
christmas/

Christmas Links with some cool graphics:

http://ahs.dsd.k12.ut.us/aes/Holiday/christmas.html

There are many more great winter, holiday and Christmas
websites - these are just a few that seemed interesting to me...


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Don't forget to visit:
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http://www.curtdavis.com

Hmmm...this is still a puzzle to me.  the Onelist help person said it has to
do with one's email client, and not their system...because they send it out
just the way that it appears on the settings page (which is with line
returns in appropriate places).  And it sounds like some people are getting
the message in tact and others are getting like me +ACY- others--all
+ACI-smushed
up+ACI-.  Yet, I don't often get other emails like this.  Does anyone have a
clue as to this mystery...and is there a way that I could set my email
client so that it doesn't do this for SOME messages?  (I use MS Outlook 98
nowadays).

Thanks+ACE-
Robin

I have recently organized and revised my webpage containing an
extensive collection of Interesting Links.  Those Interesting Links
cover a wide range of topics with an emphasis on reference,
research and internet search resources.  The entire list can also
be downloaded for anyone that prefers to view them on their own
computer.

http://www.curtdavis.com/links

--
Interesting Stuff list:
http://www.curtdavis.com/stuff
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace:
http://www.curtdavis.com

Robert Tiess, creator of the Respool research list has created an
excellent Yellow and White pages people and business locator
directory.  The directory is called the Proteus Yellow and White
Pages and this place will save you some time if you need to find a
person or place that has a phone listing.  Reverse listings are also
supported.

http://rtiess.tripod.com/proteus/yellowpages.htm

ResPool is a free reference and research network established for
researchers, information specialists and others interested in
discovering and/or sharing potentially useful and informative
resources on the Internet.  Respool is an incredible resource! You
can join the Respool list where you will receive all of the
informative replies to research requests or you can browse the
Respool archives on the web:

http://rtiess.tripod.com/respool.htm

The Respool Archives can be found here (URL may span more
than one line):

http://respool.listbot.com/cgi-
bin/subscriber?Act=view_archive&list_id=respool

Another great creation of Robert Tiess is the Proteus Internet
Search Tools page.  There are lots of great search resources
here worth checking out!

http://rtiess.tripod.com/proteus/index.htm





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http://www.curtdavis.com
Curt's Corner in Cyberspace

Alan Harrell's SeeknFind is a great place to go for some great
search resources.  SeeknFind provides a fast-loading, very
effective search page to help with your internet searching.  In
addition to the traditional search engines, check out the Tech
Search, Opedia Search, Microsoft Search and Mailing List
Search sections!  Note that SeeknFind now has a new location:

http://www.ashlists.org/seeknfind/

If you have trouble finding what you are looking for with the web
version of SeeknFind - be sure to give SeeknFind's List Version a
try - a mailing list where subscribers help other subscribers find
information in the Internet:

http://www.ashlists.org/seeknfind/#seeknfind



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