The Ides of January 1999

E-MAIL TIP You need to do your spring cleaning early this year! It's time for all of us to decrease the amount of disk space we use on Winnefox's server (the computer that also runs the WALS shared catalog, online circulation system, and the Community Information Database). PINE users: Delete old messages and weed folders: Every time you send an e-mail message, a copy is saved in the "sentmail" folder. Delete any unnecessary messages stored here. At the beginning of each month when Pine asks you if it should save your old sentmail to "sentmail-dec-1998", say NO to simplify your folder management. Clean out your "saved-messages", "mail" or "old-mail" folder. Your account may be set up to move to these default folders any read messages in your Inbox. Check to see if there are messages you've forgotten about, stashed away and taking up space - out of sight, out of mind! To see a list of all the folders you have, when in Pine just press the L key. NETSCAPE E-MAIL USERS: To prevent your messages from being stored on the WALS server as well as your PC, make sure your options or preferences are set thusly (unless you also use Pine and regularly manually delete the messages mirrored on the server): Netscape 3.x: Options | Mail and News Preferences | Servers | Messages are copied from the server to the local disk, then | Removed from the server Netscape 4.x: Edit | Preferences | Mail & Groups | Mail Server | Mail Server Type | Pop3 | make sure there is no checkmark in the box next to "Leave messages on server after retrieval" If you use e-mail software other than the above, consult the software's Help documentation. If you currently use Pine but are interested in using Netscape's e-mail application, please contact Joy Schwarz to get all the details you need to set it up. If you make this change, you'll need to make sure to clean up any Pine folders and messages left on the WALS server. INTERNET TIP Do you share a computer with co-workers? If you use Netscape Communicator 4.x you can create a user profile for each person who uses the browser. User profiles let more than one person use Communicator to access the Internet in different ways -- you can create a profile to keep your settings, preferences, bookmarks, and mail messages separate from others who share the PC. Find all the details at Netscape Communicator: Sharing Communicator With Others. Once you've created additional user profiles, you'll be prompted to choose the one you want to use each time you start Communicator. WINDOWS TIP In last month's Ides I mentioned that you can change the font size and style of the text displayed in your web browser. You can also increase the size of Windows 95/98 dialog boxes and menu items. In a posting from the Web4Lib electronic discussion, Robert Tiess gives the details on how to do this on your PC. USEFUL URL O' THE MONTH February will be Library Lovers' Month - visit the Friends of California Libraries to find all kinds of ideas you can use to promote library use in your area, including "Take A Librarian To Lunch". They even offer a sample proclamation you can use as a model for making Library Lovers Month official in your own town or city! FUN URL O' THE MONTH Invasion of the Hippocritters, or Conan's Comic Adventures is part of the Richland College Library's "Adventures of Conan the Librarian" page. "Conan's sense of humor is as big as he is. He needs it, because working in the Richland College Library frequently leads to encounters which are funny, sometimes hilarious, weird, even bizarre." RECIPE O' THE MONTH is Artichoke Pasta Salad. back to the Ides Archive home

 

	This page was last updated January 15, 1999
	The Ides is written by Joy Schwarz. Please direct any questions, comments or recipes to schwarz@winnefox.org
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