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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4211" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4211">Dutch Mailing List Available -- For those of you who like to read TidBITS in Dutch, you can now either read the issues on the Web or subscribe to a mailing list to receive issues automatically</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4217"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4217', 'show')">Betting the Orchard</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4217" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4217">Apple has released little strategy information to the public after its widely derided efforts to eliminate the Macintosh clone market. That doesn't mean that we've ceased to talk with a variety of friends within Apple and the Macintosh industry in an attempt to piece together a coherent view of what Steve Jobs is attempting to do with Apple</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Oct 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4472" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4472">XTND XMIT Xplanation -- Several readers reminded us of a solution to a problem Glenn mentioned in his anti-spam article in NetBITS-004. If an ISP prevents relaying to protect its servers against being exploited by spammers, that action also prevents legitimate users from sending mail when not dialed into the ISP's own networks</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4193"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4193', 'show')">Recently in NetBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4193" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4193">Recently in NetBITS -- If you're interested in the burgeoning problem of spam email, check out the last two issues of NetBITS. In NetBITS-003_, Adam wrote what's can be done personally, commercially, and legally to limit the vast quantity of unwanted, unsolicited, commercial email many of us now receive</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4194"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4194', 'show')">Apple Posts $161 Million Fourth Quarter Loss</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4194" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4194">Apple Posts $161 Million Fourth Quarter Loss -- Last week, Apple posted its fourth quarter results, which included a $161 million net loss. For the year, Apple's revenues totaled $7.1 billion, down 28 percent from $9.8 billion in 1996</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4196"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4196', 'show')">Aladdin Releases Spring Cleaning 2.0</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4196" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4196">Aladdin Releases Spring Cleaning 2.0 -- Aladdin Systems today started shipped the long-awaited upgrade to Spring Cleaning 2.0, the popular uninstaller utility for the Macintosh</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Oct 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4479" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4479">Filter Feeders -- Following last week's Damn That Spam! article in NetBITS-003, a number of people wrote in with their systems for dealing with spam via filters</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4483"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4483', 'show')">Question: How Can I Set My Clock Automatically?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4483" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4483">Question: How Can I Set My Clock Automatically? A number of readers asked that I reveal how you can make sure your computer's system clock correct itself by checking an atomic clock over the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4488"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4488', 'show')">Damn That Spam!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4488" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4488">All right, I'm angry. I'm fed up with spam (junk email, sometimes known as unsolicited commercial email), and I'm almost as fed up with the hopelessness of the current methods of stopping it</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4491"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4491', 'show')">Question: Blast from the Past?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4491" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4491">Question: Blast from the Past? Since we're on the subject of time on the Internet, we'd like to thank Sylvia Belgodere for subscribing to NetBITS... from 1956 (according to the date line of her email message)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4176"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4176', 'show')">No TidBITS Next Week</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4176" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4176">No TidBITS Next Week -- TidBITS is taking next week off, so you won't see our next issue until 20-Oct-97. However, we plan to add items to TidBITS Updates on Web site, and NetBITS will appear as usual Thursday night</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4178"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4178', 'show')">AppleShare Via IP for the Rest of Us</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4178" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4178">AppleShare Via IP for the Rest of Us -- Open Door Networks shipped ShareWay IP Gateway, a program that enables an AppleShare-compatible server to provide file sharing over the Internet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4179"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4179', 'show')">Four Hundred Issues and a Dynamic Web Site</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4179" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4179">I like marking numerical milestones. TidBITS-100 was the first issue formatted in setext (structure-enhanced text), a format that we've used for email distribution ever since</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4498"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4498', 'show')">Spread the Word</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4498" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4498">Spread the Word -- If you're a TidBITS subscriber, you must now subscribe to NetBITS separately, or this is the last issue you will receive. We didn't want to force you to opt out of NetBITS, but we hope you'll opt in by subscribing</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4503"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4503', 'show')">Question: What is the best way to write URLs in print?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4503" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4503">Question: What is the best way to write URLs in print? Several readers wrote in to ask about how to specify URLs in print and email, asking specifically about the angle brackets we use around URLs and the trailing slashes that follow some URLs.Answer: As with anything in print, publications often have different styles</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4504"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4504', 'show')">Question: How Do You Pronounce GIF?</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4504" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4504">Question: How Do You Pronounce GIF? A number of readers asked how to pronounce GIF, which stands for Graphic Interchange Format and is a graphics format originally developed by CompuServe</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4162" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4162">NetBITS Subscription Reminder -- We received a great response to the first issue of NetBITS, sent to all current TidBITS subscribers (our apologies for not explaining the unusual send within NetBITS - we incorrectly assumed TidBITS readers would have read last week's TidBITS issue before receiving NetBITS on Friday)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Sep 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4163"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4163', 'show')">TidBITS in Italian</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4163" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4163">TidBITS in Italian -- We're happy to announce the Italian translation of TidBITS. The first few issues have been translated by coordinator Francesco Madeddu , and he's looking for volunteers to help out with translating</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Sep 1997</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4166" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4166">Internet Config 1.4 Released -- Peter N Lewis and Quinn have released version 1.4 of Internet Config, the public domain solution for centralizing Internet preferences such as email server, Web home page, download folder, and much more</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Sep 1997</div></div>
<a href="/article/4167"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('4167', 'show')">Mailing List Managers Updated</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_4167" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_4167">Mailing List Managers Updated -- The two major commercial mailing list manager programs, StarNine's ListSTAR and FogCity's LetterRip, have both been updated recently</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 29 Sep 1997</div></div>
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