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E-mail Tips, Cautions and Rules
1. Be very careful opening e-mail ATTACHMENTS
2. NEVER give your Show-Me Net PASSWORD to anyone.
3. Before you send that e-mail message--click here.

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ADDRESSES
Show-Me Net provides one free e-mail address for each of our individual accounts.   Members are urged to periodically check their Show-Me Net e-mail account for renewal notices and other important correspondence from Show-Me Net.

More e-mail addresses are freely available from many sites on The Internet, (e.g. Hot-Mail, Yahoo).   But members should not use web based e-mail programs which will check your e-mail for you.  You should NEVER give your Show-Me Net userid and password to anyone on The Internet!  (See MOREnet's warning).  Instructions for checking e-mail while traveling are here.

E-MAIL & ATTACHMENTS
E-mail is a lot like regular mail.  A regular letter (or e-mail message) may say something you may or may not like.  But it probably won't hurt you.  However, a package (or e-mail attachment) delivered in the mail can explode or spread Anthrax.  Packages can hurt you.  E-mail attachments can hurt your computer.
Most e-mail programs show attachments as paper clips.  Clicking on these paper clips gives an option to save or open the attached file.  Traditionally, viruses were spread in attachments often sent by the virus without the sender's knowledge.  However, many of the latest viruses may be caught when the message is previewed.  The attachment does NOT need to be opened.

A good policy for opening attachments is:
1)  Verify by any other means that the sender actually sent the attached file.
2)  Save the file to the hard drive by clicking on it and selecting "Save attachment."
3)  Scan the saved file with a current antivirus program.
4)  Pray.
5)  Open the attachment.

MAIL FILTERING RULES
Members enjoy practically unrestricted use of Show-Me Net's e-mail service.  But, we have e-mail filtering rules which are intended to curb unsolicited commercial e-mail messages (spam). 

VIRUSES AND HOAXES
See our new "Viruses and Hoaxes" page.

CHAIN LETTERS
Chain letters are a vast waste of Internet resources.  See Donald Watrous', Rutgers University, excellent page on chain letters.   

SPAM
Spam, or U.C.E. (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail) is a growing problem.  You may decrease the amount of spam you receive by following two simple rules:
1) NEVER ASK TO BE REMOVED FROM A SPAMMER'S MAILING LIST, and
2) NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM A SPAMMER! 
See our new spam webpage for lots of information.

This page was last modified June 6, 2008

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