E-mail, and Search Tips PROXY SERVER By using WebTV, you are using a proxy server (http://developer.webtv.net/authoring/proxy/) A proxy server sits between you and the sites you visit. Because you use a proxy server, your email address is not given out just by looking at a site. If a site could grab your address just because you looked at it, it would show up at http://ident.junkbusters.com/. HOW MUCH MAIL STORAGE It is now 4mb in the saved folder and 4mb in the inbox. The above change also means the sent and discard folders are now cleared every _4_ days instead of 7 like before. The sent and discard folders don't count towards that 4mb. That means you can save up to 500 small text only messages like you're reading right now. This message would be between .01% and .02% in size. Size is what counts in saving messages not the number of messages. Very heavy HTML messages can take up to 2% while those pesky WebTv Plus wav attachments can take up to 70% and more in _one_ message 10 MINUTE TIMEOUT What was that trick to keep things going after the ten minute time lapse when writing e-mail? When you're getting close to "time out" press "goto" and type in the letter "A." You'll get a pop-up telling you it's an unknown URL, _and_ you'll get another ten minutes! I am likely to lose what I wrote if I use Go To unless I put the email thru spelling. I suggest testing on a sample 1st. Options sometimes works Another trick is to press home button ----   then let the homepage load----and then press back button----it should take you back to the page you were writing on---and it should be just like you left it. I've found that when leaving a partially written email that if I "remove signature" before leaving it, it will be there when I return and select either the "write" or "reply" as I had before. DISAPPEARING CURSOR The minute your cursor "disappears" while typing an email, hit your "return/enter" key and you will find it on the next line. Then just hit your "back" key and it will put it where it belongs... You can also just click on "remove signature", type the letter, then turn it back on before you send. We've all been dealing with the disappearing cursor for months now. WebTV says they are aware of the problem and are working (?) on it. In the meantime, here is how I deal with it. When I see the cursor has disappeared, I hit the return key about 4-5 times and then use the "up" arrow key to return the cursor to where I want it to be. This creates a space between where you are typing and the unseen next line. Continue typing and you will not have a problem with losing the cursor while finishing that email. Even if your unit times out, you can't see your cursor, but can continue typing and will see the letters as you type them.So you can continue your email, and then reconnect when done. Last year someone posted that. Only problem was that you couldn't start new paragraphs. If you hit Return, you reconnect. EMAIL TO POSTER When you want to email the person who made a post, instead of posting to the group, use this trick. Instead of clicking on "Mail To," click on the person's email addy instead. This will guarantee that you will be emailing them instead of posting a personal reply to a newsgroup. When responding to an email and you want to check the original before sending, just click on "Attach original message" instead of using the Back key. This has never failed me. As Always, Tex Using a Microphone You can plug in a microphone to record 30-second sound clips to send on your emails. On my PM plus, the mic jack is on the back, but I don't know about the Sonys. What you do is plug in your mic, write your email, then when you are ready to record, click over onto "recording"...you get a popup that looks a lot like a tape recorder control panel. Pretty self-explanatory. then when you are satisfied with what you have recorded, click onto "add to email" and then "send". Microphones for Webtv Plus There are 3 different types of Microphones: Professional - These use a large 'XLR' balanced connector that has 3 prongs. Computer - These require a Sound Card inside the PC's case to work. Consumer - This is the one you want. They come with several different sizes of jacks. You need to match the size with the port on the back of your WebTV unit. Adapters are also available. The 2001 Radio Shack catalogue has Mics ranging in price from $5 to over $100. Check out page 208. I have a Rado Shack wireless microphone model number 32-1221B that works with WebTV. It works fine. I use the Radio Shack 33-3025A and it works fine. MATCHING BACKGROUND COLOR If you're having a hard time matching the bgcolor to an image this is a real help. If you're doing framing and coloring bgrounds at Image Magick, it's great: http://www.planetwebtv2k.com/cube.html ACCENT ñ I know that most of you know this, but just in case _somebody_ doesn't..... In a edition of Webtv News, the reply to a question about placing the accent above the n .....ñ .... stated that it can only be done using html and the code &tilde. It can be done without html by holding down the Alt key, click on the tilde key, click on the n (nothing will show at this point) release Alt key and click on n again. The ñ appears in place with the accent mark. Cheers, Namkida RECEIPT MAIL Any of you good people know of a free mail site that offers Return Receipt? It would be nice to know that the person you sent an e-mail to, had actually received it. I know the greeting sites have that feature. Cannot understand why it not available on e-mail. http://www.returnreceipt.com/ http://www.certifiedmail.com www.registeredemail.com GIFT CERTIFICATES If you're looking for those last minute Christmas gifts here's a thought: http://www.webcertificate.com offers online gift certificates. They can be spent online by the recipient at any site that accepts Mastercard® I have both sent and received webcertificates, and have had no problems with them! An added bonus ... ya don't have to leave Webbie to go Christmas shopping! ;~) Roy SPELLCHECK ADD WORD You can type a misspelled word in the text area of your e-mail Write page and click on Spelling to bring up the spelling choices and the word list link on the side bar. Then click on word list which brings up the Add word choice. Add the word you want and success!! there it is. (Without a misspelled word in e-mail, Spelling just brings a pop-up saying there are no misspelled words.) SLOW TYPING Have you ever had an animation in your signature that made typing extremely slow? Each time the animation moved, it would cause a hesitation. Just discovered that if you press your return key so that the animation is below the typing screen, it doesn't affect your typing. You don't even have to return it to it's place and the end of the text. When sent and received, it's where it's supposed to be. Maybe you all know this already (or haven't had the problem), but thought I'd share it with you. OCTET STREAM ATTACHMENT After clicking on the attachment at yahoo and getting the pop up I pressed goto and show last. I cut and paste that url and went to this site: http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb I entered the url and converted it into text. I was able to see the url that was for the octet stream attachment and then view it. Now I don't know much about these attachments or what is behind them, but this worked for me. Dazzlelee (Lee) sent me this site and I wanted to share it with everyone. Thanks, Lee Melissa INQUIRE MAIL http://www.inquiremail.com/ is their webpage and its still there. This site is down right now, but they intend to be back in operation soon. Just send an email to search@inquiremail.com with whatever information you're looking for in the subject line, and literally, within minutes, you will receive an email back with many clickable sites dealing with your specific request. url@inquiremail.com will send you back door ways to access a site. Type the url you want in the Subject line and leave the rest blank. (use the http:// too!) EMAIL SEARCH In The following email search I found my email addy listed, however, I never registered it anywhere. You might try this one. http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/

E-mail PICTURES IN EMAIL If it's attached to an email you received, you can activate your Scrapbook and upload to it from the email screen as you view it. Here's how to get a picture to your Scrapbook: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/9820/toscrapbook.html ...and here's how to get a URL [website address] for the picture to link to it: http://members.tripod.com/~cannonball2/newbees/ScrapBook.html ...and here's a newsgroup for help: news:alt.pagebuilder.help Hope this helps, Saverio WNI E-MAIL ADDRESSES   Dennis Reno, Customer Service: dreno@corp.webtv.net   John Guardi, Customer Retention: jguardi@microsoft.com   Nobody, Newsgroup Adminstrator: Nobody-Munition@webtv.net   WebTV, Customer Support: Support4U@corp.webtv.net   Net4TV Magazine voice@net4tv.com   WebTV News: Submit PageBuilder site: webtvsites@webtv.net Send Hot Leads: webtvnews@webtv.net Questions: webtvletters@webtv.net   E-mail your post to news:webtv.users wuapr@corp.webtv.net   Report Abuse or Spam by a WebTV user: Abuse@webtv.net   Reporting non-WebTV Spam: spam@corp.webtv.net   Tod Manning, Compliance Department Supervisor: tmanning@microsoft.com CV (Chinh) seems to be over-seeing the new moderators. His address is: okra-madness@webtv.net MAIL SCREENS If you're going through mail, and want to send mail, while on your mail list, press your send key, to get a "mail " screen. If you want to get to any sort of stored mail, rather than arrow up to store, you can press your save key, and you'll get a pop-up asking if you want to go to saved mail. Click on the pop-up saying ''View saved messages," then, from there, you can easily go on to sent and discarded. PDF FILES I just recently found a way to open PDF files with WebTV without a computer. It's pretty easy. See my JumpTo Page for instruction.[where it says don't look] Don't Look Here: http://community-2.webtv.net/garybernard/JumpToPage EMAIL STORAGE Our email was recently doubled, to 4mb per user. This (roughly) equates to 1000 'average' size _text_ emails (approx 4kb each). However, you must remember that HTML (sigs), images (jpgs/photos), sounds (mids/wavs) and other content will _greatly_ increase the size of an email. [Note: By 'content', I mean _actually within_ the body, so that you can 'see or hear' them when you read the email; _Not_ links, because they are text!] Therefore, depending on how many 'heavy content' emails you receive, you would be reasonably safe to say 500+. Obviously, everyone is different, so you can't exactly define the number. Using 500 as the limit number, that is 500 in "Mail List" AND 500 in "Saved". The "Sent" and "Discard" folders have _No_ limit, and are _supposed_ to be 'cleaned up' once a week, but I have yet to have mine 'automatically' cleared in 2 years of having the 'LBB'. I do it myself every few days. BTW, this post will be approximately 3 to 4kb in length. Hope this helps, Regards, Steve EXTENSIONS AND ATTACHMENTS Try the site below, it can open up many different extensions including microsoft word (doc) extenstions. http://www.freeviewer.com/ Question.. If the "bmp attachment" came in an email as an attachment that we can not open.. how/where would I find the URL to enter into giftools converter to convert it to a jpg..? Gif Tools, has a .bmp to .jpg converter also, http://www.giftools.com/ Being a photo image a jpg would retain more of the image than say if you converted it to a gif format.... @ email Bounce-Edit http://community-2.webtv.net/hollywoodWOFmap/emailEditQuickFacts/ BLOCKED DOMAINS As an example....when we forward spam to webtv....when they find there is numerous spams coming from a certain domain, they will "block" the acceptance of that email...here's a list of our blocked domains: http://vega.webtv.net/antispam/ STORAGE Great place for storing Email Signatures. Can be used as a Clipboard for saving ANYTHING you want to write down. VIRTUAL CORKBOARD. You can post messages, photos, and links; and use eBoard as a personal homepage or place to share these. Sign on to eBoard, a free service, at http://www.eboard.com Are you sure you want an E-mail "company" to help save your favorites? I might be mistaking your meaning of favorites, if you mean your saved E-mails are overflowing sure a place like Eudora mail could help, Although I would reccommend Yahoo over Eudora, Yahoo is now giving 6MB of space free thats enough room for all the E-mail of three users names. Plus you can SEE things better in the Yahoo "mailroom" set up folders, filters. I have not once gotten spam in my Yahoo account. If you meant favorites in the usual sense of saving web sites please read these: From Beth Candy the #2 of the article http://www.net4tv.com/voice/story.cfm?StoryID=1616 From IOM: Rearranging Webtv Favorites http://community-2.webtv.net/IOM/doc6/ VID-CAPS Whenever I made vid-caps I always had to set everything to the base channel "4", tv, vcr and the p-i-p for some reason. If you want to save your vid-cap here is how to overcome that "letterbox" look when you transload. http://gifs123.tripod.com/vidcap.html