From bobrankin@MHV.NET Tue Jan 6 17:00:38 1998 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 10:25:40 -0500 From: Bob Rankin Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS -- 11 DEC 1997 -- TIPWORLD AND ZDTIPS (PART 2) This post contains inline ASCII graphics which look best in a monospace font like Courier. Text-to-speech readers should turn off punctuation now. _________ ____________ ________ __________ _____________ ___ _ / | / | | / | \ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|___________/ | \ / /______|----\ | Visit the TOURBUS Web site to see the Archives, |//////| | | FAQ, and Subscription Information! |//////| | | http://www.TOURBUS.com |//////| | \________________________________________________________|______|____| / \ / \ / \ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ 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." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TIPWORLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. :) ---------------- ZDTIPS BY E-MAIL ---------------- 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 -------- ----------- 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! :) -------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- FLOSS WATER (noun). A device used to squish flying bugs. Usage: "Hand me the floss water, bubba ... I'm gonna git that bee!" 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