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October 2002

Miscellaneous Stuff You Need to Know

  • Do not claim that your email conforms to some BS House or Senate bill. This is a crock and spam filters will most likely delete your email.

  • I get more and more questions from legitimate and professional people about whether an email is spam or not. They tell me they plan to send to a large list they somehow acquired with a note that they sincerely have something of value for the recipient SPAM, SPAM, SPAM.

    They also tell me they plan to give the recipient a chance to get off the list if they don't want to get any more email. SPAM, SPAM, SPAM if the people have never asked to hear from you before, then you're spamming them.

    DON'T BE TEMPTED TO SEND TO LISTS THAT HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU PERMISSION TO SEND TO THEM.

  • Any claim that the mailing conforms to U.S. House resolutions
         or Senate bills, enacting or pending, that regulate email.
         This is a classic spammer trick and, increasingly, a spam
         filter trigger. If you use this language in your newsletter,
         it tells me that you need to learn more about laws governing
         email publishing.

  • If you are doing lots of audio work on your computer and plugging and unplugging lots of wires, I find it easier to turn my computer around so the rear is facing me so I can plug stuff in quickly.

  • When buying or renting a new home/apartment check carefully to see if high speed Internet access is available. Many of the telephone people are still clueless. I put six calls into Verizon to see if DSL was available at a certain address and not one person knew what they were talking about. You might have to knock on the doors of the neighbors to find out. (be careful doing anything door to door).

  • Be very careful distinguishing between the Adobe Acrobat Reader which is the reader we generally use to create pdf e-books and the Adobe Acrobat "Ebook" reader which is something totally different that will confuse your customers.

  • Make it an absolute rule in your office AND ENFORCE IT that no drinks are to be placed on the same level or above a keyboard or any other electronic device.

  • Don't take a computer nerd's word for Gospel. I just had a person who proudly proclaimed that she was a "technician" tell me that I didn't need the little threaded receptacles on the back of my laptop that securely holds my projector cable in the monitor port (one of the receptacles was stripped out or cross threaded). She said as long as it fits well into the port you didn't need the screws holding the cable firmly in place. I didn't even bother arguing with her. Sure if you sit at a computer repair bench all day and don't go out in the real world you don't need the screws. In the real world when the speaker or program organizer moves your laptop around just before you go on stage, then you are "Screwed" when the cable comes loose.

  • Don't forget to clean out the dust from the fan openings on the back of your computer once in a while.

 

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