September 2007 Training &
Events Schedule
15 Sept. (Sat)
Rope Training Time: 0800 Place: Flowing Springs
Roger Miotto and rope instructors
in charge |
Italics = Sign-up required to attend this training
Planned Training
Sessions
(Coming this
Year)
|
Planned Navigation Training
Compass and GPS |
Italics = Sign-up required to attend this training
Requested
Training Sessions
If you would like to volunteer to run a training session, or if you
have a training session request contact any Board Member or Don
Johnson
To reserve use of squad ATV, contact Don Johnson at 928-474-5335.
Jacket, gloves,
boots, helmet, and eye protection required to operate Squad ATV
Squad Web Site:
www.trsar.org
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Computer Tips, Techniques, Rants, Raves, and Netiquette
submitted by
Les Hulse
This month,
lets take another look at SPAM.
How to prevent receiving spam
How spammers grab addresses
Basically,
spammers will start sending you junk email as soon as:
1. You
list your email address on a public web page (your web site,
forums, etc);
2. You
subscribe to various newsletters and you confirm to their
agreement without reading it (for example, you confirm to
receive promotional emails);
3. You
received an email from someone who you don't know and you open
the message. If the email message is using the HTML format, once
you view the email, the spammer will know for sure that your
email account is real and so he will keep sending you junk
emails;
4. Your
browser security level is set to accept various cookies and
controls, or simply you manually agreed to deploy/install such
files;
5. You
clicked on a link or attachment from an incoming email message,
although you didn't know who the sender was; and
6. You
don't permanently use an anti-virus program.
13 rules on how to avoid
getting your mail account on spam lists
Theoretically it's simple: just
don't do the above actions and you will stay away from spam.
Practically, it isn't so easy. You need to communicate with
people, after all this is why you got an email address. So you
want to use it, not to hide it.
1. Get yourself at least two email accounts. Use one for
public communications (forums, communities, business cards) and
keep the other one only for trusted contacts. Use only the
public one for registering for Internet services/accounts.
Indeed, you will still get spam, but this way at least you have
a clean account.
2. If you
have to list your email account on public pages, try to cheat
spam spiders. Instead of writing your address as "john@domain.com",
write it as "john_at_domain_dot_com". People will understand how
to read it, but robots will not. As an alternative, you can make
a transparent image with your email address and instead of
writing it on a web page, just link the image to it.
3.
Read Terms & Conditions pages. Whenever you have to
subscribe to a newsletter or to create a web account on a site,
make sure their Terms & Conditions page doesn't give them the
right to send you unsolicited emails. Do not select to receive
promotional offers by email.
4. If
your email client can do it, then make it to receive and
display incoming emails as plain text, not as HTML.
5. When
receiving a spam mail, do not attempt to unsubscribe. If
you didn't subscribe, then why unsubscribe? Most of spammers are
using it to validate your email address, for further spamming
purposes. It's simple: if you unsubscribe, it means your email
address exists and someone (you) is reading the emails.
6. Do
not use auto-responders: an auto-responder is a clear signal
for the spammer that the junk mail arrived at a real email
address, which gives him a "good" reason to keep sending spam.
7. If you
email client is able to do it, then use auto-preview
functions and erase junk email before you download it on
your computer. You can also use a separate program for this.
8. Do
not click/open links, images or attachments coming from not
trusted sources.
9. Do
not confirm or trust applets, plug-ins or ActiveX components
not signed or signed with invalid certificates.
10. Set
your browser security so it doesn't accept 3rd party cookies
(at least the Medium level on Internet Explorer).
11.
Use live updates: update your operating system, Internet
browser and email client software as often as possible.
Spammers, as viruses, often take advantage of your security
holes.
12.
Use an anti-virus program and check for updates daily.
Spammers and worm viruses go hand in hand.
13.
Report spam: no, it will not stop spam, but you will help
the experts on making better software. Reporting spam will make
you feel better.
Website
Tonto Rim SAR Members can now have
your very own email address through our site. Just contact our
Webmaster at
jack@jackswebs.com to arrange for it, no cost to you or us.
Youll also find
our newsletter on the
Rim Country Volunteer site;
http://www.inpayson.com/TRSAR-Payson-Rim-Country-Area.htm
No Related SAR Info
This Month
Thanks to those who contributed to this issue of the newsletter.
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