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Hewie's Views and Reviews
By Hewie Poplock
Welcome to this issue of Hewie's Views & Reviews. Be sure to visit Hewie's Favorites at http://www.hewie.net/ . Hewie's Quick Thoughts appear almost daily at http://www.hewie.net/weblog/ .
In this issue
May, 2003
++++ Winmail.dat attachment
++++ IP Address Locator Tool
++++ Stuck in the mud
++++ DVD formats are a toss up
++++ Getting spammed?
++++ New additions to Hewie's Favorites
++++ Winmail.dat attachment
This past week I had 2 unrelated requests for help with email
attachments of "winmail.dat". The best explanation of the problem and the solutions for an e-mail with a winmail.dat attachment that I have found is located at ~http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
Take a look. It explains how to prevent your recipients from getting this attachment when you use
Outlook as an e-mail program.
Summary:
When an end user sends mail to the Internet from an Exchange Windows or Outlook client, a file attachment called Winmail.dat may be automatically added to the end of
the message if the recipient's client cannot receive messages in Rich Text Format (RTF). The Winmail.dat file contains Exchange Server RTF information for the message, and may appear to the recipient as a binary
file. It is not useful to non-Exchange Server recipients.
So, if you get winmail.dat attachments or have recipients that tell you that received such an attachment, you should read the document at ~http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm .
++++ IP Address Locator Tool
Have you ever wondered where a domain is located or where
the IP address in an email came from? The Geobytes IP Address Locator Tool tells you where an Internet server is physically located. Just type in the domain name or IP address and you will get the location. http://www.geobytes.com/iplocator.htm
++++ Stuck in the mud
Yep, a website dedicated to pictures of vehicles stuck in the mud. How do you explain the
situation to you parents, your spouse, or your insurance company? http://www.ok4wd.com/worststuck.asp
++++ DVD formats are a toss up
This is from Dave Graveline's newsletter at http://www.graveline.com/ . Of the three competing formats for recording blank DVD's, the research firm NPD Group estimated that 50.1% were +R or +RW, and 47.5% were -R or -RW (or "dash") format. A third format, DVD-RAM, used mainly for non-video data, took under 3% of sales. Overall, there were 7.5 million blank DVD's sold last year. Sony already sells DVD-recordable drives that support the two main formats, and Gateway and Apple are considering the dual format drive. Also, we bought 1.6 billion blank CD's in 2002.
++++ Getting spammed?
You might want to find out where spammers get your address and how you can hide it. A six-month experiment was conducted by the Center for Democracy and Technology. The center
set up about 250 dummy e-mail addresses, and during the six-month test those addresses received a combined 8842 e-mail messages that the center researchers classified as unsolicited e-mail, which is commonly known
as spam. But about 97 percent of that spam--8609 e-mail messages--was received by six e-mail addresses listed at three Web sites.
Their conclusions recommended that you 1.Disguise e-mail addresses posted in
public places, 2. Carefully read privacy policies at sites asking for your e-mail address and look for opt-out choices, 3. Use multiple e-mail addresses, including ones for specific purposes such as posting to
newsgroups, and 4. Consider a spam filter if your Internet service provider offers one. Read more at http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109884,tk,dn031903X,00.asp
++++ New additions to Hewie's Favorites
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