Friday, September 11, 1998

08:32:36 AM

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Netscape Communicator Mail Filters

If you are using Netscape Communicator for email, one feature that is incredibly useful is Mail Filtering. You can use this feature to help fight spam (unwanted email), sort your regular incoming mail (like The Desktop News), and keep you from missing important messages in the morass of an ever increasingly filled mailbox. Visit Netscape's Cool Communicator Tips for February to learn how. Also, NOLA is offering Advanced Email classes on April 7th where you will learn how to better manage this important tool.

One of Our Own

Every now and then, I am still surprised by something on the net (though not nearly as frequently as I used to be). This time it is a site that is co-maintained by Geauga West director Cynthia Orr. Bookbrowser; a guide for avid readers, is just that. Comprised of reading lists, reviews, forthcoming titles and more; this is a great site for the voracious fiction reader. I especially liked the Series & Sequels section. There is also a good resource section with links to listservs, websites, etc. Overall, a nice resource and I suspect, an intense LABOR of love.

Atlas; Still Shrugging

Ever wanted to get your arms around what Cyberspace really is? So did the folks at University College London. Using the term Cyber-Geography, they have created an interesting site entitled "An Atlas of Cyberspaces". The plurality is important as you begin to recognize that there are lots of geographical definitions of cyberspace. There are also a lot of tools out there as listed on The Geography of Cyberspace page.

Law Libraries and Technology

This article in the New York Times Cyber Section (free, registration required), outlines how these specialized libraries are being challenged with the availability of electronic versions. A decent article but it misses the real point. Information professionals are still very much necessary. Somebody has to create and maintain the electronic collection.

What Hath God Wrought - - - > QWERTYUIOP??!!??

Samuel B. Morse wrote the words above upon sending the first telegram. Alexander Graham Bell (no relation, though my father and grandfather both retired from the phone company), spoke "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Could it be possible that the first email really was "QWERTYUIOP"? According to Ray Tomlinson, the creator of email, its possible. This issue of PreText magazine is devoted to the History of the Internet. Good reading.

Items submitted by:
Kenneth S. Bell - Email
NOLA Regional Library System

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