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October 2002
Miscellaneous Stuff You Need to Know
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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