The Ides of April 1999

E-MAIL TIP If you regularly send e-mail messages to a group of people, you may find adding distribution lists to your e-mail address book to help out. A list can contain two or more e-mail addresses, and you can create as many as you need. Pine users: Press M to go to the Main Menu, and A to open your Address Book. In the lower righthand corner of the screen you'll see the Address Book commands "S CreateList" and "Z AddToList". These two commands are all you'll need to begin. Press S to Create your distribution list and Pine will ask for the "Long name/description of new list", and you can enter any word or phrase that describes the list (for example, "Reference Department Staff"). Next Pine will ask you to "Enter list nickname (one word and easy to remember)" and you can type in something like "ref". Now Pine will prompt you to "Enter 1st address or blank when done". If you're including staff at Winnefox libraries you'll just need to type in the person's user name (jones) and Pine will fill in the rest of the e-mail address for you (jones@winnefox.org). A distribution list can contain staff user names, as well as complete email addresses (jones@aol.com), and nicknames you've already set up in your Address Book. When you've completed entering addresses into the distribution list, press the Enter key to finish. When composing a message just enter the nickname of the list in the To:, Cc: or Bcc: fields, and Pine fills in all the addresses on the list. To add or delete addresses from a distribution list, when the cursor is positioned on the name of a distribution list pressing D tells Pine to remove the entire list. If the cursor is positioned on a single address within the list then D only removes that address from the distribution list. If you use Netscape 3.x's e-mail client, you can create and manage distribution lists by clicking on Window | Address Book | Item | Add List. If you need details, check the Netscape Navigator Handbook: Address Book Menu Items. If you use Netscape Communicator 4.x Messenger Mailbox click on Communicator | Address Book and click on the New List button, and visit Netscape's Introduction to Communicator: Keeping a Personal Address Book for more information. INTERNET TIP Ever visited a web site that took too long to load and wish you could continue surfing another site while you're waiting? Or have you followed links from a web site and lost track of where you started? Try opening more than one session of your web browser and see if it helps you out. To open a second session of your web browser press the Ctrl and N keys (think N=New.) If you prefer to use your mouse, in Netscape 3.x click on the menubar choices File | New Web Browser. In Netscape 4.x click on the menubar choices File | New | Navigator Window. You can also use this technique if you use Internet Explorer 3, 4, or 5. This second window has the same history items as the previous window, and displays the oldest page in the history (usually the home page you've chosen). You can also open a new browser window by right-clicking on any hotlink and choosing "Open in new window" from the menu. In addition, some Web pages are set up so whenever you click on a link it will automagically open as a new browser window. If you'd like to see this technique in action, visit the Government in Oshkosh section of the Official Oshkosh Community Web Site. You can have 3 or 4 web browser sessions open at the same time if you like! They'll all show up on your Windows Taskbar, and if you "hover" your mouse pointer over each of the Taskbar session "buttons" a small window will pop up that will show the title of the web page that's open. WINDOWS TIP When you choose to delete files, Windows 9x puts them into the Recycle Bin instead of permanently deleting them. If you right-click on the Recycle Bin icon you'll see a menu of choices. If you choose "Explore" you'll see the contents of the Bin. This can be quite handy if you're "dumpster diving" for a document you need to rescue! Right-click on any item and you can restore it to its previous location. USEFUL URL O' THE MONTH If you weren't able to attend the Internet Librarian '98 conference in Monterey, California last November (and who could?) you can still be there in a virtual kind of way by going to their Conference Presentation Links. Web pages that accompanied presentations like "Old Wine in New Bottles: Using the Internet to Access the Content You Need", "Searchin' the Net for Reference Answers", and "Getting to the Good Stuff: How to Find Quality Material" and more can be found here. You won't be able to sniff the oceanside air of Monterey, but maybe you'll be better able to focus on the presentations without the pleasant distraction! FUN URL O' THE MONTH Visit Great Moments in the History of Technical Services so you can find out fun facts like the "First attested use of an ISBN (for the special collector's edition of Caesar's Gallic Wars with an introduction by Marc Anthony): IXIVVIIXVIIIVIIIVIVII. RECIPE O' THE MONTH is Parmesan-Walnut Bread. back to the Ides Archive home

 

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