From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sun Jan 6 21:34:58 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g072Ywa20222; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:34:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust253.tnt1.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.10.253]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g072Ysv20215 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:34:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <03b901c19723$e999b9e0$8423d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net USNA-Net Newsletter -- 01/02/06 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:35:02 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org ================================================================ USNA-Net Newsletter Date: 01/02/06 ================================================================ A Word from your Moderators... Sandi and I wish to extend our best wishes to all of our members for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Without all of you there wouldn't be a USNA-Net. We want to thank all of you for your overwhelming support. Your patience and understanding made the transition to our new server effortless and your continued participation has insured that USNA-Net will remain the premier USNA Parent Network for many years to come. Happy New Year Mike and Sandi Zets 333,600 Visitors to YOUR www.USNA-Net.org web site since 9 March 1999. Thanks. In this issue... 1. Mid & Member Privacy & Anonymous Postings 2. ISPs and Message Delivery Problems 3. Changing Email Addresses &/or Lists 4. Attachments & Rich Text (HTML) Postings 5. New Information in Handbook - BWI Bus Service 6. Viruses, Worms and Trojans ================================================================ This Newsletter is sent to all members of our USNA-Net Listservers. It is published as often as needed and is intended to provide insight into our service, answers to Frequently Asked Questions, and Technical Assistance and Information to our membership. ================================================================ 1. Mid & Member Privacy Please remember that every time you hit the send button you are sending your message to as many as 2,200 Families. We want to encourage members to post but to do so with a bit of extra care when you are mentioning things which may be embarrassing to either your Mid or other Members. Always assume that the person you are writing about will read your message, even your Mid's roommates and classmates. While this is not supposed to happen, assume it will and you will be much less likely to cause a problem. Don't mention the last names of any Mids or Members (or identify anyone other than your own family) and you will never cause any problems. You might feel it was a cute story to tell 2,200 other families that your Mid's roommate, John Smith, took a teddy bear back with him this time but I doubt that he would want to share that info with half of the Brigade. Even casual references should be considered carefully. We want to a source of caring advice and support, never an embarrassment to anyone. Anonymous Postings Which brings us to the next topic. How do you write to ask for help when it's too embarrassing to sign your own name to a message that will appear in 2,200 households? That's where your Moderators can really be of help. Send the message to either Sandi or myself at our private email addresses (mzets@USNA-Net.org or jsandi@USNA-Net.org) and we will remove your identifying information and pass it to the lists anonymously. We can also post RESPONSES just as anonymously as questions so that everyone may participate without fear of embarrassment. As always, Sandi and I are sworn to the utmost secrecy. We've been through most situations, either directly ourselves or by helping other parents through their problems for almost four years now. We're here to help and always keep our members' best interests in mind with everything we do. 2. ISPs and Message Delivery Problems Internet Service Providers come and go faster than Pizza at Bancroft. With the bankruptcy of the @Home organization, many members are faced with changing ISPs or finding new services. Others are being told that their provider has been bought by another service and things will be changing. Most importantly... If you have an interruption in service, find a way to let us know. Otherwise, if we can't send email to your address, we'll be forced to remove your name from our lists. Many ISPs impose limits on how much email can accumulate before they begin rejecting mail with "Mailbox Full" notices. Lately, these limits are shrinking so you MUST check you email more often. Recently, we encountered yet another national ISP (Adelphia.net) who had our service blocked as a "bulk" mailer or SPAM source. All mail from our server was dumped and not delivered. We received no notices of non-delivery and members where left to wonder what happened. It took us a full day to convince their Tech Support People that we were legitimate and should not be blocked from their customers. It helped that several users had already phoned them about this situation. If you suddenly stop receiving mail from us, get in touch and we'll figure out what the problem is. 3. Changing Email Addresses &/or Lists Please keep us informed (PRIVATELY - not on the lists) about any changes in your email status. Send us a note from your OLD address (if at all possible) giving us your NAME, Old address and your NEW address. You'd be surprised how many people forget to tell us who they are when they do this forcing us to look you up. Also, if you want to drop or add another list, send us a PRIVATE note telling us what you want to do. We'll be happy to fix things right away. If you want to try it yourself by sending a message to majordomo, remember that it MUST be in plain text and you have to be very careful to spell everything correctly. It's easier to just drop us a private note. If you're leaving all together, please don't just drop out. Let us know why you're leaving so that we might better serve those who remain. 4. Attachments & Rich Text (HTML) Postings Okay. One more time... Attachments to email are bad things. They carry all sorts of evil stuff (see Item #6 below). Sometimes they can't be avoided but they have no place on our lists. We filter all messages for length, so attachments won't be passed to our lists even if you attempt to send one. Likewise, our server doesn't like messages sent with photos, graphics or stationary embedded inside. Even a very short message of only a couple of lines can easily become a huge missive if you include a stationary or background image. We are in the process of final testing of software that will automatically filter out all HTML and Rich Text Formatted gobbledy-goop from our email. Until it is debugged and running, we ask that you avoid stationary and graphics in your email. Also, attachments are a futile effort. ( PS to AOL Members... Forwarding anything (or including the original message) will cause AOL to ATTACH the forwarded or quoted message rather than insert it into your message. Since attachments have been and remain prohibited, AOL members must be careful about this. Just another reason to dump AOL and find a low price ($8/month) or free connection to the Internet.) 5. New Information in Handbook - BWI Bus Service We've updated the Parents' Handbook on our web site at www.USNA-Net.org to include the new bus service available between Annapolis and the BWI airport. We've put up the schedule and even included a map to help you or your Mid locate the only pick-up point in Annapolis on Spa Road. One-Way fare is just $3.00 so this makes this service the least expensive way to get back and forth between the airport and the Academy. Look for the information on the Transportation Page in the Parents' Handbook. We'll be adding detailed instructions to National and Dulles soon. 6. Viruses, Worms and Trojans We continue to have members who accidentally become infected with Viruses that came to them in some mysterious fashion. Actually, it's almost always (99.99%) via email attachments but they always swear that "they" didn't open any attachments. I always ask, "Are you the only family member with access to the computer???" The best protection is good Anti-Virus Software that is updated regularly (like EVERY week). If you want to know more about these things or suspect you have an infection, go to our www.USNA-net.org web site and look for VIRUSES in the site index. You will have two choices for information - REAL Viruses and HOAXES. Read up! The more you know, especially about HOAXES, the better and safer you will be. The worst REAL Virus of the bunch is a little ditty about Snow White. It's will really cause problems with your computer and it attempts to send itself to EVERYONE in your address book. Our lists are immune but our individual members who correspond privately are not. (There are currently two members out there who are infected with this one and are sending out copies of the virus to all their friends. All we can tell is that they are using ili.net or att.net as ISPs. See http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98873) Every week it seems, a couple of members are caught with a HOAX and end up damaging their own healthy computers because they believed an email message that told them to delete a certain file. The sulfnbk.exe HOAX is just that - a fake. Every Windows computer will have a copy of this file exactly where this HOAX message tells you to look for it. It's supposed to be there. Don't delete it. In fact, (except for MY messages) don't believe anything an email tells you about viruses. Look it up first using our web site information BEFORE you do anything. Also, never forward virus messages to anyone. Almost always, those "warning" messages are hoaxes and fakes and the advice they give (and you pass on by forwarding) is BAD advice designed to harm those you read it and get taken in by the fake message. When in doubt, STOP and ask a trusted computer expert BEFORE you take any actions. If you're a computer neophyte, don't do anything until you get an expert opinion. Again, Happy New Year. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers Webmaster - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Messages to our lists must support our Mission Statement and MUST pertain to Navy Parenting. Do not share this message with non-members! ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Wed Jan 9 10:41:34 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g09FfYP02534; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:41:34 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust213.tnt2.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.27.213]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g09FfS102518 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:41:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002a01c19924$1f6e9de0$d51bd343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net What we're all about... Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:39:16 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Dear Navy Family and Members of USNA-Net, I suppose it's time again this year to address our Mission and how our members perceive us. The "Email TAX" message reminded me that it's about that time again - Time to understand what USNA-Net is (and what it isn't). You see, the Email Tax message is a Hoax, as several of our members pointed out. (Thanks to Paul Neely and Maggie Gentzen for the assist.) But more than that, it doesn't pertain to Navy Parenting. And didn't belong on our lists. (My sincerest apology to Steve Doll. This is not intended to be any sort of public admonishment. It was just a simple misunderstanding.) As Moderator, I could rant about Rules violations and how it was a forbidden "call to action" and quote several different Rules that this message violated but the long and the short of it is that it can all be summed up in a couple of sentences... "USNA-Net is an Advice and Support Network for Parents of Midshipmen at USNA. As such, we are here to provide Advice, Support and Information about Navy Parenting to fellow parents." Period. But you say, "The TAX message WAS information." You're right but it wasn't about Navy Parenting! That's why it doesn't belong on our lists but a note about the next TV program on Submarine Cooking does. The distinction is much easier to make if you remember "Navy Parenting." You see, it's very easy to read all of this email coming in every day from other USNA parents and to get very comfortable about the service - to think of fellow list members as extended family and to look forward to every new name as a new opportunity to make a new friend. And that's all true and very important to our continued success. We are just one big extended family. But... Our Lists not a Chat service to talk about just any old thing. Nor is it the back gossip fence and we can't use it as such without our inboxes being flooded with email that doesn't pertain to our Mission. Sooner or later, members will leave because of the excessive message traffic. And without members, we won't be of service to anyone! With as many members as we have (over 2,100) Chat and Fluff can get out of hand very, very quickly. It's very important to our continued success as a Parent Network to maintain our FOCUS on what we do and who we are. So before you hit the send key, ask yourself, "Does it pertain to Navy Parenting?" If it does, by all means, SEND IT. If it doesn't or your not sure, send it to your Moderators and ask about it first. This includes Virus Warnings (even the real ones) and all sorts of other non-related topics. We're about NAVY PARENTING. As tempting as it is to use our service to talk about other things, that's not what our lists are for. Thanks for listening... Mike & Sandi Zets Westlake, OH Moderators - USNA-Net Listservers *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Messages to our lists must support our Mission Statement and MUST pertain to Navy Parenting. Do not share this message with non-members! ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Jan 14 23:48:08 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0F4m8Q14281; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:48:08 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (2Cust247.tnt4.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.47.247]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0F4m6B14274 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:48:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <067b01c19d7f$d61396e0$f72fd343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net A New Annapolis Cam Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:48:09 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org To all, We have discovered a NEW web camera which has replaced (sort of) the web cam which formerly overlooked the City Docks in Annapolis. It is being provided courtesy of the Historic Annapolis Foundation. It shows the City Docks from a different angle than the last camera but it will still give you an idea of what the day looks like everyday (and night) in Annapolis. The view in the day light is better than the image at night. To view the camera (which is updated with a fresh picture every three minutes), go to our web site at www.USNA-Net.org and move your mouse over the "USNA CAM" logo on the right edge of the page. A pop-up window will appear with the new camera view. The page automatically refreshes to insure you have a current view in the window. Enjoy. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Messages to our lists must support our Mission Statement and MUST pertain to Navy Parenting. Do not share this message with non-members! ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Fri Jan 18 21:34:41 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0J2YfO42329; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:34:41 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust84.tnt2.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.27.84]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0J2YbA42322 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:34:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <036a01c1a091$da1e3780$541bd343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Blue Star Flag Article on CNN. Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:34:39 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org To all... A few things of note. There was a write up on the CNN web site about Blue Star Pennants that I thought might be of interest to our members. Remember that your Sons and Daughters are considered to be on Active Duty in the Navy. All of our members qualify to display one of these Pennants either on their front door or in a front window to show your pride in having a Son or Daughter serving in the Military. Let your neighbors and friends know. Your can read the article at... http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/18/blue.stars.ap/index.html If you want a flag to display, remember that they are available to all (members and non-members alike), at our On-Line Store on our Web Site along with USNA Mom Pins. Just go to our Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org and Click on the On-line Store graphic in the upper right of the main page just under the Plebe Corner Link. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Also, we receive notices for each undelivered email. So when your email box fills up because you haven't checked your mail for a LONG time, we begin getting notices that you aren't getting your mail. If we get too many of these, we have no way to tell you to read your mail and our only recourse is to remove you from our lists. This is especially true of Hotmail and Yahoo accounts. Please make an effort to read your email at least once or twice a week to save us some extra trouble and to guarantee your continued subscription. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Remember that if you are receiving email at home, you can't send email to our lists from work or vice versa. You MUST send email to our lists FROM the same email address at which you receive email. If you send mail from another address it will bounce and your Moderators will have to forward it on. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lastly, PLEASE try to remember to sign your email with your name, general location and Mids first name, Class and Company like so... Mike Zets Westlake OH Ensign Michael Stoker ('00/10) In this way, we will all benefit from knowing who you are and about where you live. It helps to bring us together as a group, allowing those who live close to know about that and those with Mids in the same Company to find each other. Again, check out our On-Line Store and the Blue Star Flags. They're a great way to show your pride to all your neighbors and visitors. www.USNA-Net.org/on-linestore/ Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Messages to our lists must support our Mission Statement and MUST pertain to Navy Parenting. Do not share this message with non-members! ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sun Jan 20 19:39:39 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0L0dd356430; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:39:39 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust153.tnt1.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.10.153]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0L0dbZ56423 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:39:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <014501c1a214$189443a0$990ad343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net No More Rich Text Problems - Not Ever! Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:39:31 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all... It is with great excitement that I have the pleasure of announcing to all of our members that our lists are now operating with one less problem. Through the Herculean efforts of a fellow parent (Richard Albrecht of Urbana, Illinois. - Meredith '04), we now have a special filter in full operation which will strip ALL Rich Text Formatting and ALL attachments from all list messages automatically. What does that mean? It means that all of our members (including our AOL members) may now send mail to our lists without a single care about how it is formatted, or whether is being sent as an attachment or anything. Our custom installed software will strip out all the bad stuff and send your message to the lists in the correct Plain Text Format. AOL 6.0 members can send messages without doing anything special. Our Hotmail and Yahoo members can send mail without worry about attachments or any other problems. All messages will now be signed automatically with the appropriate signature line so there will never be any unsigned messages again. And BEST of all... Our Archives and Digest versions will never again contain any gobbledy-goop and strange characters. Every message, every Digest and every Archive will all be 100% readable from now on. For more than a year before our move last September, we begged the owners of our old server to acknowledge that Rich Text was a problem and to find a way to fix it. We knew it could be done and now, USNA-Net has done it for OUR members. Imagine clear, readable messages and archives all the time. It's just one more thing that the move to our own server has allowed US to do for OUR members. After all, you, our members, are what really matter to us. We are Parents Helping Parents. Thanks again to Richard for the hours and hours he put into this project getting it perfect. We all owe him a huge thank you. Go Navy - Beat Army ! Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sat Jan 26 16:36:00 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0QLa0O74738; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:36:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust197.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.197]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0QLZwD74728 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:35:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000901c1a6b1$7727be00$c523d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Class of 2002 - Service Assignments Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:36:05 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all... We have posted all of the Service Assignments for the Class of 2002, sorted by Last Name, Company and by Service Community, on our web site. To view this detailed listing, go to www.USWNA-Net.org and click on the Graphic Link in the middle of the Right Side of the main page. When the listing opens up, you will find three tabs at the bottom of the page which will allow you to display the names sorted in any of three different ways. We converted the lists into real web pages instead of making them PDF files which so many of our members have trouble opening. You should have no problems with these pages if you are patient. We thought you'd all like to look at where all 979 members of the Class of 2002 will be starting their Military careers. Enjoy. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sat Jan 26 17:16:34 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0QMGYA78331; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:16:34 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust197.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.197]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0QMGW678323 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:16:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <008801c1a6b7$220ba8e0$c523d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net Service Assignments Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 17:16:40 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To al... Sorry. I mis-typed our own URL. It's www.USNA-Net.org Then click on Class of '02 Service Selections on the right of the main page. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sat Jan 26 23:02:13 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0R42DI11883; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:02:13 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust197.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.197]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0R42Bl11874 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:02:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <041e01c1a6e7$6c8e3600$c523d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net TECH NOTE - Cache and Your Browser... Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:02:21 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all... Since some of you are less comfortable with computers than others, I will be sending these TECH NOTES to help. DO NOT respond to these TECH NOTES on the Listservers. Address ALL responses or questions to me personally at mzets@USNA-Net.org. Computer whizzes ignore this message - Newbies read on... ============================================= TECH NOTE - Cache and Your Browser. Why you don't see what others see on a web site. ============================================= Years ago when computer modems were slooooow and DSL and cable modems were hugely expensive toys of corporate MIS departments, the designers of Browser Software for personal computers decided to cheat to help speed things up to the average user. They used an old computer concept call "cache." Since web pages (especially those with graphic images) take a long time to load, it was decided that every time you go to a page that you've never visited before, your computer would store the entire page and all of the graphics and music - everything - on your computer's hard drive in Temporary Files which are collectively called cache. Then, when you re-visited that page later that day or tomorrow, instead of downloading the page across your pokey slow modem again, your computer would look in its cache and if the page was there, it would simply display it from your hard drive. Zooooooom !!! Fast pages and happy customers for people who bought Browser Software. There's a problem with this cache system. Web sites change from time to time. If the page you visited yesterday changed everything on the page today and you were still pulling up the page from your hard drive, you'd never notice that the page had changed. You would never see the NEW page. You can get around this problem by forcing the computer to download NEW content (even if it hasn't changed) rather than using the cached pages in several different ways. You can set your browser's "options" or "preferences" to check for newer versions of stored pages at certain intervals like: "Every visit to the page"; "Every time you start the Browser"; "Automatically "or "Never.'" (These are the choices I have using MS Internet Explorer under Tools > Internet Options > General > Temporary Internet Files > Settings). In some cases your Browser software may have been set to "Never." If that's the case, you'll never see updated web pages unless your force a manual refresh" or "reload." To manually force the browser to look for the latest page content, you have to "refresh" or "reload" the page. To do this, look at the top of your browser's screen (this even works for AOL and Mac users) for a curled arrow button next to the "Back," "Forward" and "Stop" buttons. It will be labeled "Refresh" or "Reload." Click it and the page will be reloaded from the web rather than from your computer's cache. This will display the page with its most current text and graphics. So if you were having trouble finding a link called "Class of '02 Service Selections" on the right edge of the main page of our www.USNA-Net.org web site, just refresh your browser and Viola' - the latest look. Hope this helps. ===================================================== Please note that I know "I" am violating the rule that "ALL messages must relate to Navy Parenting" but I feel there is good reason. As Moderator, I'm allowed to be the exception that proves the rule. If you do not need a little computer advice from time to time, simply hit the delete key when you see the Subject: TECH NOTE. If you have a specific question that you need help with, write to me at mzets@mail.com. I will answer as many as possible directly and those that seem to be of general interest, I will post in a TECH NOTE. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Jan 28 23:27:49 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0T4RnH53938; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:27:49 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust53.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.53]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0T4RlH53929 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:27:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0ff201c1a87d$52c67240$3523d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net STOP ! V1RUS ALERT ! Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:27:53 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all, Our server stopped an attempt to publish a V1RUS called "My Party" and, just as it was supposed to, it stripped the attachment which contained the V1RUS. It did not however stop the carrier message which came through to the list. This "carrier" message is harmless BUT at the bottom of the message, there was a note that gave the name of the attachment which was removed. For more information go to... www.myparty.yahoo.com If you receive this same sort of Party Message from anyone else, along with the attachment, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT! You will be infected. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Tue Jan 29 13:27:04 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0TIR4F35431; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:27:04 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust128.tnt1.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.10.128]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g0TIR1t35416 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:27:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <01a901c1a8f2$8f35bc20$800ad343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net V1RUSES and Related Things... Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:27:05 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all USNA-Net Members... Yesterday was a particularly busy day on USNA-Net. We had a run on V1RUS attempts on our system. There are still at least three of our members who are infected with the HaHaHaSexyFunny W32/Hybris.gen@MM V1RUS which comes in a message about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. (This particular V1RUS disguises the senders address so we can't identify exactly who is infected and warn them.) But the big news of the day was the new W32/MyParty@MM V1RUS which is described at the end of this email. It is a small V1RUS that is contained in an email attachment (99% of these V1RUSES are hidden in email attachments) and, once you open the attachment, you're infected. Period. Your computer then sends a copy of the V1RUS to everyone in your address book. This V1RUS is spreading VERY quickly. Over the past 24 hours, Sandi and I have received at least a dozen copies of this V1RUS from various members who have us in their address book. (So much for being "popular" with the membership.) We wanted to remind you again to NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS that come with email from friends and/or relatives. No one had a party and no one is sending you photos to print. Now a word on why you DIDN'T GET THIS V1RUS FROM USNA-NET.... Our NEW server stops V1RUSES cold. Last September, if you remember, we moved our operation to our very own server and left WP-ORG who had been hosting our service. This move enabled us to implement a host of new features on our Mailing Lists and our Web Site. Among them is the ability to FILTER ALL INCOMING MESSAGES and remove nasty stuff like, HTML Formatted Email Text and Attachments from the message traffic BEFORE they are sent to our members. Before we moved to our own server and the NEW lists, we could only stop large attachments (over 40,000 bytes). That would NOT have stopped this new V1RUS. It's a tiny package of only 25,088 bytes. If we were still using the old WP-ORG server, this new MyParty V1RUS would have been sent to every member of our lists. As far as we know, the situation on the WP-ORG server has not changed, protection from small V1RUS attachments has not been implemented, because their Alumni members insist on being able to send photos as attachments and have therefore left their attachment size limitation at 40,000 bytes. Every one of their lists (Alumni and all of their Parents' Lists) are still at risk to this new V1RUS. While we were still there last summer, we tried very hard to convince WP-ORG to change their attachment policy but they refused. It was just one more reason that we left their server and all of that unnecessary risk behind. In any event, the only way YOU are going to catch a V1RUS is if YOU aren't careful with attachments received from others. You won't receive ANY attachments from USNA-Net, it's impossible, regardless of size. We even examine our regular email automatically for certain words and phrases to prevent some other messages from being sent to our lists. That is why the word V1RUS is spelled with a 1 instead of an i. Our filters won't allow a message (even from your Moderator) to be sent to the lists which contains the properly spelled word. All of this is done automatically for your protection and the safe and operation of our lists. What can you do? Make sure that you have Anti-V1RUS software installed on your computer and that you have UP-TO-DATE DATA FILES for it to use. Also, if you've moved up to a Cable Modem or DSL connection from the old dial-up modem, be sure to install a FIREWALL to protect your computer from hackers. It's become a fact of life. You need protection. Not from USNA-Net but from other individuals. With V1RUSES, it's not a matter of IF - only a matter of WHEN. Without protection, you could lose everything. Best regards, Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org ================================================== Information on the latest new V1RUS... Name: W32/MyParty@MM This mass-mailing worm arrives in an email message containing the following information: Subject: new photos from my party! Body: Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks! Attachment: www.myparty.yahoo.com (29,696 byte PE file) ================================================== --- *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================