Resource Bin

Don Lancaster’s RESOURCE BIN

number sixty four

The human side of the web.

ur usual reminder here that the There’s a tendency with email to the overwhelming majority are an Resource Bin is now a two-way impulsively "quickly say sumpthun", utterly mind-rotting waste of time. O column. You can get tech help, instead of thinking out a researched consultant referrals and off-the-wall or carefully measured response. Newsletters networking on nearly any electronic, Thus, any email message largely and A newsletter is an automated list of tinaja questing, personal publishing, ruthlessly stomps out any and all creative email recipients. Often with a tightly money machine, or computer topic by thought. Within a six block radius. targeted special interest. Some person calling me at (520) 428-4073 weekdays Some people may genuinely try to who feels strongly about this interest 8-5 Mountain Standard Time. help, but do not have the faintest clue area elects to maintain the list and the US callers only, please. what they are talking about. Often, mailings. Some lists will accept any I’m now in the process of setting up they might cause lots more harm than posting from anyone. Others may be my new Guru’s Lair web site you will good. Some may have an axe to grind. edited to one degree or another. find at (where else?) www.tinaja.com Others may be selling something you Newsletters can be either public or This is the place you go for instant might not want. Or are perpetuating private. Your only real difference is tech answers. Along with the new outright scams. Yet others may react whether the moderator decides to let Synergetics Consultant’s Newtwork & violently to anything they consider a you get on the distribution list. lots of links to unique web sites. personal affront. Virtually anybody can join a public You will get the best results if you Thus, take everything you read on newsletter. All you’ll need is a way to have both Netscape Gold and Acrobat the net with several Bonnevilles of send and receive email. Your typical Reader 3.0 installed. This new reader salt. Always get a second and even a procedure is to put the word subscribe does utterly amazing things online. third opinion. Always look before you followed by the newsletter name into leap. And Never flame, confront, or the body of your email message. The Human Side infuriate anyone. For they surly will Which will start getting you great of the Web return with a vengence. heaping quantities of email. Possibly In past columns, we have looked at Buyer beware. hundreds a day. A scant few of which getting yourself web literate, starting are genuinely useful. By hitting your your own home page, finding favorite Chat Rooms browser’s reply button, you’ll answer web sites, and doing online research. Chat rooms are offered by most of any email sent you. More details on these files are found the commercial online services. They Or start a thread of your own. on my Webmastering Library Shelf of are similar to a telephone party line or You also might have the option of my www.tinaja.com. an open CB channel. Anyone can call subscribe digest. In which you get one But the web can be many things to or two humongous mailings per day many different people. So, this month, instead of hundreds of smaller ones. I’d thought we’d take a gander at the NEXT MONTH: Don shows But these might be a royal pain to go human side of the web. Those special some unique resources for through. It can be an even bigger pain interest places where folks one-on-one video game development. to respond to a single message. talk to each other. Or can get answers An unsubscribe message should get to really tough questions. you off their list. But oftentimes might Three wildly different personal web in at any time. A lot of these users not do so on your first try. services now include newsgroups, chat often do tend to be pathetic juvenile While newsletters are easy for the rooms, and newsletters. newby flamers. Org. host to set up and run, nearly all of the Who quickly drive all of the useful hassles and inconveniences get placed on A Warning participants away. the end user. Thus a typical newsletter Let’s start with this warning: The More organized chats are known as is extremely user vicious. And often acronym "net" stands for not entirely conferences. They include a moderator might have the exact opposite effect of true. Anyone on the human side of the that plays "Mother May I" and instills what the provider intended. But these web can say anything at any time for some sort of order. This is particularly do have controlled distribution. any reason. Regardless of their skills, useful whenever any guest speaker is There is also that old "W. C. Fields" motives, emotional stability, fervor, present, fielding questions. problem. In which you may not want greed, or competence. Pick your chat rooms with care. For to subscribe to a newsletter that will

Copyright c 1997 by Don Lancaster (520) 428-4073 www.tinaja.com All commercial and all electronic media rights fully reserved. May 1997 / Nuts & Volts Magazine 64.1 accept you as a subscriber. new from There are 18,000 public newsletters. Deja News And probably three times that many The oldest and finest newsgroup DON LANCASTER private ones. snooper is called Deja News. I have a ACTIVE FILTER COOKBOOK link to it through my "search all sites" The sixteenth (!) printing of Don’s bible on analog Newsgroups op-amp lowpass, bandpass, and highpass active feature on the Web Related Links of my filters. De-mystified instant designs. $28.50 A newsgroup is any special Internet www.tinaja.com. You can also hit them service provided by a news host server. directly at www.dejanews.com CMOS AND TTL COOKBOOKS Sort of a syndication. Arrangements Simply enter your subject phrase, Millions of copies in print worldwide. THE two books for digital integrated circuit fundamentals. have been made by the group’s host and a list of all recent messages to all About as hands-on as you can get. $28.50 each. moderator for distribution. To read newsgroups pops up. There is also a newsgroup postings, you will simply historical archive. INCREDIBLE SECRET select the news group from your news Perhaps you need a schematic for a MONEY MACHINE II server. You then pick out only those Lambda power supply. You punch in Updated 2nd edition of Don’s classic on setting messages of interest to you. And then Lambda power supply schematic to see up your own technical or craft venture. $18.50 only respond to those you wish to. where it directs you. If you are lucky, Thus, a news group places most of you’ll get direct hits that give you a LANCASTER CLASSICS LIBRARY Don’s best early stuff at a bargain price. Includes the hassles on the provider. And very useful answer. the CMOS Cookbook, The TTL Cookbook, Active Filter Cookbook, PostScript video, Case Against few on the user. Anyone can access a If you aren’t lucky, you enter power Patents, Incredible Secret Money Machine II, and newsgroup. So long as they do have supply schematic and get the indirect Hardware Hacker II reprints. $119.50 access to an ISP with a news server. list of all the newgroups where such Such access may cost a dollar or two a questions are likely to be asked or LOTS OF OTHER GOODIES .Tech . . . . Musings...... V . or. . .VI ...... $24.50. . . . . month extra with certain ISP’s. answered. When that does not work, .Ask . . . the. . . Guru. . . . .I . or. . II. .or . . III...... $24.50. . . . . You don’t have to be a news group try schematic wanted. Hardware...... Hacker...... II, . .III . .or . .IV ...... $24.50...... Micro . . . . .Cookbook ...... I...... $19.50. . . . . member or a subscriber. Because of Another neat feature of Deja News PostScript...... Beginner ...... Stuff...... $29.50...... PostScript ...... Show . . . . .and . . . Tell...... $29.50. . . . . open access, a newsgroup is poor for lets you find where else someone has .Intro . . . .to . .PostScript ...... Video ...... $29.50. . . . . PostScript...... Reference ...... II ...... $34.50. . . . . sensitive, proprietary, "gray", or any been posting. This gives you a quick .PostScript ...... Tutorial/Cookbook ...... $22.50. . . . . potentially litigious content. There are check on credibility and interests. PostScript...... by . . Example...... $32.50...... Understanding ...... PS. . . Programming...... $29.50. . . . . tens of thousands of newsgroups. .PostScript: ...... A. .Visual . . . . . Approach...... $22.50. . . . . Alta Vista PostScript...... Program ...... Design...... $24.50. . . . . Let’s look at a few newsletter and .Thinking ...... in. . 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Mac or PC format. $29.50 up. When you know the name of your and similar content. When Usenet is BOOK-ON-DEMAND PUB KIT desired newsgroup, just enter it. For chosen, you’re searching for personal Ongoing details on Book-on-demand publishing, a new method of producing books only when and instance, one great Adobe Acrobat 3.0 newsgroup postings. as ordered. Reprints, sources, samples. $39.50 newsgroup is called comp.text.pdf. If you do not put your keywords in The last few day’s of postings will quotes, Alta Vista will automatically THE CASE AGAINST PATENTS show up in a browser window. Click pick the "best" places to go for your For most individuals, patents are virtually certain to result in a net loss of sanity, energy, time, and on the ones you want to read. Right information. When you do quote your money. This reprint set shows you Don’s tested mouse click to post your reply. More keywords, it searches for those words and proven real-world alternatives. 28.50 clicks can save or flag a message. only in exact sequence. Without quotes BLATANT OPPORTUNIST I The more dots in any newsgroup "Don" will hit any time that the word The reprints from all Don’s Midnight Engineering name, the more specific its content. To "don’t" appears in a message. columns. Includes a broad range of real world, proven coverage on small scale technical startup get a list of all newsgroups, just go to Thus, quotes are useful to restrict ventures. Stuff you can use right now. $24.50 your browser’s options box and click you to a very specific subject. But they on show all newsgroups. You may also also might miss a lot, may be slower, RESOURCE BIN I A complete collection of all Don’s Nuts & Volts have options of viewing active, new, or and may not report your best results columns to date, including a new index and his subscribed newsgroups. first. Your best rule is to quote names master names and numbers list. $24.50 To keep the listing short, most are but very little else. found in closed folders. For instance, FREE SAMPLES Check Don’s Guru’s Lair at http://www.tinaja.com you will find at least 2500 newsgroups P. A. M. L. for interactive catalogs and online samples of Don’s unique products. Searchable reprints and whose name starts with ".alt". This great service is short for Public reference resouces, too. Tech help, hot links to I’ve posted a NEWSLIST.HTML file Accessible Mailing Lists. And does to cool sites, consultants. email: [email protected] to my www.tinaja.com. newsletters what Deja News does to FREE US VOICE HELPLINE VISA/MC For this month’s resource listing, I newsgroups. 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Copyright c 1997 by Don Lancaster (520) 428-4073 www.tinaja.com All commercial and all electronic media rights fully reserved. May 1997/Nuts & Volts Magazine 64.3 asking a caving newsletter where you out, personally and immediately remove can buy a large ball of string. Two Horror Stories them. By hand! Or using words like overunity or free I was repeatedly placed on a highly Do not, under any circumstances, energy at a real science group. intrusive tech newsletter without my ask them to place specific words in Never flame! First and foremost, you knowledge or consent. Lots of polite certain message positions. And, above always wait ten seconds before hitting requests for my removal were all, do not require a never-received or your send button. Always ask yourself ignored. Those that were not caused long forgotten password or member "Is this what I really want to say?" Do an ever increasing flow of ping tests. id number for removal. remember that your message will be Forever and ever. Always be sure to remove anyone on the net for a long time. Stronger removal techniques seem immediately on their first request. The best way to avoid a tug-of-war to have finally worked. Needless to Always make sure your digests are is to not pick up your end of the rope. say, I now am highly praising all their timely and consistent. Avoid any second or higher response competitor’s products whenever and Never use the newsletter email list to a message. And remember that the wherever I get any chance. Their link for any other purpose. Unless you get other side will have the last word. The also is banned from my website. specific permission ahead of time. best strategy is to decide just when or It turned out that any email contact Show all subscribe and unsubscribe where you will let them do so. with their company automatically and messages in plain English. Some of Never spam newsgroups! Send the permanently placed you on the list for those UNIX stock message screens are tightly targeted query to one site only. their newsletter. totally undecipherable gibberish. Maybe two in a dire emergency. But the absolute worst offender on Do make sure the unsubscribe info Yes, it is permissible to post a brief removals are the yoyos at Yoyodyne. appears in every message sent. commercial message. So long as it is a Especially with their Zonker scam. Always test your list once a month. "more details" part of a posting with These epsilon minuses have ignored Send a short email message advising genuinely useful content. Your usual hundreds of removal requests from me that any response will delist. All any trick is to put your short hard sell into over the last year. current subscribers has to do is ignore your signature file. Their usual response is to ask you the test message. Always make sure your comments for a nonexistent members password. And will welcome your concern. are relevant to the group’s goals. Or else they obtusely explain their 347 It is also considered poor form to step procedure for your asking to be This Month’s Contest send any longer files to newsgroups considered by the selection committee As our contest this month, just send or newsletters. Especially binary files to get on the waiting list for a removal me a list of your favorite newsletters or images. Keep your message short application request form. And then or newsgroups and tell me why you and to the point. Any time you have repeatedly email you back to say you like them. Or tell me any funny or longer information to submit, give forgot to say "Mother May I?". bizarre story involving these. Or tell them a separate download link. The single time I did reach a real me how to get off of that Yoyodyne Respect your readers time! person, they assured me I would be Zonker scam mailing list. removed from the list. Needless to There will be a largish pile of my Scams and Chain Letters say, the whole process started up all new Incredible Secret Money Machine II Sending a get-rich-quick scam or a over again a week later. books going to the dozen or so better chain letter to many newsgroups is And continues to this day. entries, plus an all-expense-paid (FOB not even dumb. First and foremost, So, I guess it is way beyond high Thatcher, AZ) tinaja quest for two that because your response will be zero. time someone passed on these rules of will go to the very best of all. What happens instead is that more web newsletter… Send all your written entries to me than a few of their readers will take here at Synergetics, rather than to Nuts very strong exception to your invasion Host Etiquette & Volts editorial. ✦ of their privacy. A few are certain to If you are in charge of running a find creative ways to get even. Such newsletter, the first and foremost step Microcomputer pioneer and guru Don as trashing your web site. Or maybe you can make for user friendliness is Lancaster is the author of 33 books and requesting tons of junk mail for you. to replace it with a newsgroup as soon as countless tech articles. Don maintains his Or writing your local postmaster and you possibly can! no-charge US tech helpline found at (520) your state’s Attorney General. Once again, newsletters place all 428-4073, besides offering all of his own Or, as has been suggested under the hassles and all the mind-rotting books, reprints, and consulting services. current "shrinkwrap" laws: filing a inconvenience on the end user, while Don also has two free catalogs full of his $500 "proofreading" fee against you. newsgroups put them on the host. resource secrets waiting for you. Your And then taking you to small claims It is a good idea to provide some best calling times are 8-5 on weekdays, court in a place that costs you a lot archive file area for previous traffic, a Mountain Standard Time. more than $500 to get to. Since you Frequently Asked Questions stash for US callers only, please. did not show up to contest, the claim any newbies and casual dropins, plus Don is in the process of setting up his becomes valid and will be awarded. a Tutorial Background area for serious Guru’s Lair at http://www.tinaja.com The claim is then given to a collection first time visitors. Full reprints and preprints of all Don’s agency. Spamscam enough of these Never enter anyone without their columns and ongoing tech support appear newsgroups, and you can end up knowledge and consent! Make sure here. You can reach Don at Synergetics, owing millions of dollars. their request is specific and valid. Box 809, Thatcher, AZ 85552. Or send Some more "etiquette enforcement" Always personally read all postings any messages to his US Internet address ideas are at www.scambusters.com at least twice a day. If anyone wants of [email protected]

64.4 May 1997/Nuts & Volts Magazine Copyright c 1997 by Don Lancaster (520) 428-4073 www.tinaja.com All commercial and all electronic media rights fully reserved. Copyright c 1997 by Don Lancaster (520) 428-4073 www.tinaja.com All commercial and all electronic media rights fully reserved. May 1997/Nuts & Volts Magazine 64.5