TECHNOLOGY

THERE WAS LIFE BEFORE THE COMPUTER
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano!
Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account!
And if you had a broken disk,
It would hurt when you found out!
Compress was something you did to garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while!
Log on was adding wood to a fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode!
Cut- you did with a pocket knife
Paste- you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu!
I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they might wish they were dead for a second or two!
We received this one as an email.  We have not idea who created it.  
 

 

OUR HINT JUNK E-MAIL 

Consider ignoring junk emails that give you the option of clicking a link to be removed from the email lists.  

By doing so, you are confirming that they have reached a valid email address.  This may get you more junk email, especially if they sell the mailing lists to others.  

INSTEAD:  Delete the unwanted email and move on.  If you get tons of email from a specific group, it may be worth risking unsubribing.

 

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STOP JUNK MAIL & JUNK EMAIL

How often do you check your mail box and you have more mail than any other type of mail.  If you are tired of receiving junk mail, you might want to contact the Stop Junk Mail Association.   Call the Stop Junk Mail Association at 1-800-827-5549. Good luck getting through, but it is worth the trouble.

 

Junk Email can be very annoying, also.  Most frequent users of the internet, do not open email from people they do not know anyway (they are afraid of receiving a virus).   Some junk email comes with unsubscribe instructions.  Weigh your options and consider the following.

If there is ever a box that says click this button to be deleted from a mailing list , especially if you did not subscribe to it in the first place, consider ignoring the request.  There are companies send out a ton of blanket emails to various email combinations and when they get a response, they know they have a valid email address.  You may wind up with lots more email by doing so.   Think about it carefully before you do this.   

 But if you work in Outlook (and some other services have this feature, as well), you can do some things to avoid getting junk email.  Follow the steps that follow if you receive your email via Outlook 98 or higher:

Click Tools/Organize.

Click Junk email to turn feature on.

When the junk email comes into your mailbox:

Right-click on it, and click Junk email.

Click Add to Junk Senders List.

Click on drop-down box to create a rule that will automatically send anything from that address to the Deleted Items folder.

To delete someone from the Junk Senders list:

  1. From within the Inbox, click Tools/Organize/Junk email.

  2. At the bottom of the resulting dialog box, click to see more options (see light gray text).

  3. Click Edit Junk Senders.

  4. Delete the desired email address.

  5. Many other email services have ways of getting rid of junk email.  Contact your service if you have trouble finding this feature and they can tell you what to do. 

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