If you are responsible for the review Maggy's World got in the Netsurfer Digest, I have two words to say: Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
That paragraph was, quite possibly, the nicest thing anyone's ever written about Maggy's World, and I appreciate it very, very much.
Maggy Donea
I'm responsible. Well, I can't say who wrote the article (contest, you know...), but I am responsible for at least selecting what will be written about. You're welcome. - LN
What a fine job you do replying to your "Letters to the Editors". I especially appreciated your handling of the AIDS and tatoos complaints.
Keep calling 'em as you see 'em - that's why you're getting the big bucks :-)
Joshua Yeidel
My dad was saying just the same thing the other day. - LN
I love Netsurfer Digest, but I have a question: Do you sell your e-mail list to mass-mailout advertisers? Just wondering....
Andy Riga
Nope - LN
G'day. I'm a school student from Melbourne, Australia. A teacher at my school wants to start an e-zine. She listed your Web site on a list of suggestions interested students were given. We are looking for ideas to use in our e-zine and I'd just like to say thanks for a great site.
Doug Mitchell
I wonder how they liked Farts.com.... - LN
Thanks for your great publication. As someone who is awash in junk mail and useless information, I appreciate that you guys continue to provide timely and useful tips, tricks, and links.
Bob Williams - US Robotics Corporation
For a while, and possibly still, US Robotics listed us in their modem manuals. - LN
I like your service! It's very clear, uncluttered, and informative. Please keep it that way!
Donnie
Damn fine issue (NSD 3.14). Thank you. I bookmarked several links.
Lewis Z Koch
Looks great - and I love the new format. I was shocked when I saw Netsurfer Digest - thought I had the wrong e-mail. Thanks for your continued pursuit of excellence.
Barry Koehl
I wasn't actually aware we had a new format. Oh, well. - LN
Your Netsurfer Digest is the best! Totally awesome! And you're coming out of a Purdue feed, but of course! I must say, wonderful. Visit my homepage if you get a chance, but in the meantime, keep up the good work.
Andy Hayes
Purdue? Where the hell is that? Isn't it a basketball team or something?- LN
Just a note of thanks for your very useful Web site. Thanks especially for the "Outbreak" review (NSD 3.16).
Diane Weitzen
Congratulations! Your Site has been listed on the Awesome Universal WebSite 500 and awarded CyberTeddy's Top 500 WebSite award.
Edward Norman Anderson Jr.
I agree with Mr. Felton's statement that downloading a non-certified ActiveX applet by ignoring the warning is a daft and foolish action. However he misses the point entirely. If the only way to safely accept ActiveX applets from the Web is only to accept them from sites that have been verified safe, then I don't want it.
Consider the administrative burden of keeping track of sites that we can trust. Frankly, there isn't time in the day to verify all of them. "Hi, Help Desk? I want to run this app from a site in Jakarta. I really need to use it. Could you verify the site for me?" No bloody thank you. The reality is that you cannot verify all sites, and users are soon going to discover that you can't. I invite the readers to guess how long it will be before they start saying to themselves, "Ah, what the heck," and clicking on the button.
How can I be sure that some disgruntled worker or some cracker hasn't put malicious ActiveX apps on the Web site? Mr. Felton feels that this is not a security flaw. I beg to differ.
Orrin Kerr
Well isn't it like one infant (ActiveX) to be jealous of another (Java). While it is true that Microsoft (and Apple, and Sun, etc.) receive their fair share of bad press, it is also true that the technologies that Mr. Felton and Mr. McNealy promote are infant technologies.
They are all flawed. Both Java and ActiveX are going to have lots of growing pains and I'm really tired of hearing both of their supporting companies claiming that the other has a hopelessly flawed programming environment.
Perhaps Mr. Felton is somewhat annoyed that despite years and years of hawking the benefits of OLE nee ActiveX, people still perceive it (rightly so) as a flawed technology that needs a lot of improvement, while Java was introduced fairly recently and has taken off like wildfire.
One other thing I'd like Sam Felton to realize. If he thinks that ActiveX is in some way a replacement or an alternative to Java, perhaps they should be concurrently developing ActiveX for UNIX, Mac, and countless other platforms that Java runs on right now, not promising to do it "sometime in the future."
If these people would just clam up, fix their damn software so it works and people can use it to be productive, I think I speak for the net-world when I say it would be very appreciated.
Roger Weeks
Yes! I have done it. All I need to do is just type ".html" after the file name and save it to another folder. Then go to that folder and double click it and voila, the HTML format I always wanted. What I was doing wrong was looking for the ".html" from the drop-down menu which only contains ".eml" and ".txt" only. Now I know and thanks to you and actually your FAQ does provide the answer and is just that I am too doltish to understand the clear instructions. Thank you very much.
Jimmy Lim
Ummm, yeah. I'm not really sure which e-mail client Jimmy's talking about, though. - LN
Love your newsletter, but thought you might like to know about an interesting quirk in your subscribe system.
If you send a subscribe request as described in the newsletter, but you
copy and paste '"subscribe nsdigest-text" from the newsletter into the
e-mail (as I did) then you get the text in bold and your server rejects the
request! I suppose the reason is that the server actually receives
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Ken Abbott
I just thought that you would like to know about two viruses that seem to be doing the rounds. They occur in e-mail messages with titles: "AOL4FREE" or "penpal greetings". They are both virulent viruses that will destroy the contents of hard disks within seconds of opening. I have not copied the messages I received because if I were a virus perpetrator I would transmit it through a "warning" message". Or am I being paranoid?
Keep up the good work.
Jeff Craig
Check out http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html for the scoop on any and all Net viruses. And send this URL to as many people as you can. - LN
Did I read "staring at a Kingmaker" board correctly (NSD 3.16)? Does this mean you play the great board game called Kingmaker? I had to leave my box in Reading when we migrated to the US. Is there an electronic equivalent do you know?
Mark Pearson
Yeah, I play once or twice a year. I don't know of any electronic equivalent, though I do know Avalon Hill has a Web site. I don't know the URL, though.
In college, we developed a Kingmaker variation called Beermaker. A few British beers (represented by tokens, much like royal heirs) are placed in the towns in which the brewery actually resides. When you capture or enter the town, you get the beers (which actually reside in the fridge). Of course, Ireland and the Continent also have beers, and you can sail west for nine turns to get some from Jamaica. In addition, we made up event cards with a "Beer Ready! Place two bottles of Red Barrel in St. Albans" sort of thing.
One thing about Kingmaker, though. For the life of me, I've never understood why you consult a loyalty table when a royal heir dies.... - LN
Now, ladies and gentlemen, you know why we have such sterling content.
Our esteemed editor filters the Internet for you through an alcoholic haze.
- AB :)
I was sent to this site by another in hopes of learning what e-zines are. What are they? I can't find any information about them, but I hear people talking about them.
Rob Caldwell
E-zines can be many things. I devoted an entire column to that definition once. Basically, I would call an e-zine any electronic printed matter (e-mail or Web site) that is updated on a regular schedule.
Note that this may include such things like personal journals. Most people wouldn't include them in that definition. - LN
You used to be funny and adult oriented. Now you are goofy and aimed at teenybopers. I am lucky if I find one site of interest on your deteriorating Web site. I probably will cancel in the near future.
James D. Jones
"BN is pissed. It's quite a ballsy leap into cyberspace."
Do you really need to use language like this?
Harmon Dow
You should have seen the raw article.... - LN
I guess I should be grateful for small favors. We live in an adolescent culture, I suppose, and should not be surprised at adolescent attitudes. It's not just Netsurfer, of course. Why should you be any different than, say, the New Yorker, which has developed a real potty mouth, figuratively speaking.
Harmon Dow
The following is not meant to be an attack on you personally, so please don't take it that way. However, 99% of what I see in Netsurfer Digest is just self-centered anti-intellectual trash. There's a real material world out there, so why can't Americans occasionally go out there and visit it, and perhaps even report back on what they have found? I just don't have time for goofy stuff, and it's saddening to realize that the real "boob tube" is the personal computer.
You ask subscribers not to unsubscribe. So, please, see if you can make the surfing a little more rewarding.
Peter Goodchild
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